Re: [LSF/MM ATTEND] persistent transparent large

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:23:04AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:

quoted

I'm eager to participate in this year's LSF/MM, but no topics of my
own to propose: I need to listen to what other people are suggesting.

Topics of most interest to me span mm and fs: persistent memory and
xip, transparent huge pagecache, large sectors, mm scalability.

I don't want to particularly pick on Hugh here; indeed, I know he won't
take it personally which is why I've chosen to respoond to Hugh's message

Sure, your remarks are completely appropriate, and very well directed.

rather than any of the others.  I'm rather annoyed at the huge disrepancy
between the number of people who are *saying* they're interested in
persistent memory and the number of people who are reviewing patches
relating to persistent memory.

It's fair enough, though, for people to express an interest in a topic,
without having time to contribute to it beforehand.  That does not earn
anyone a place, but may help the committee to choose between topics.

Frustrating for you, though; and for everyone else pushing a patchset.

As far as I'm concerned, the only people who have "earned" their way into
attending the Summit based on contributing to persistent memory work
would be Dave Chinner (er ... on the ctte already), Ted Ts'o (ditto),
Jan Kara (ditto), Kirill Shutemov, Dave Hansen (who's not looking to
attend this year), Ross Zwisler (ditto), and Andreas Dilger.

It might be a good idea to insist on significant review contributions
in relevant areas as a condition for attendance.  That's a matter for
the committee to decide (I expect it's already taken into account),
but it should help to improve our review rate.

Counts me out, but that's okay.

I'd particularly like a VM person to review these two patches:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983598101510&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=138983600001513&w=2

I'd love to give you a constructive answer, but I'm not going to
comment on 2 out of 22 without getting to grips with the 22.  You've
been thinking about this stuff for months: others need time too,
and this is far from the only patchset on their queues.

Hugh

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