From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156613455.23000.7.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz>
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 14:36 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
> > swapping over NFS.
> >
> > NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
> > A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
> > in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
>
> We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...
:-), probably not no, but some ppl might want to live on the edge.
> Also swsusp interactions will be interesting. (Rafael is working on
> swapfile support these days).
Yes, I've considered this, and this was one of the motivators to keep
the functionality under its own config option, so that it might be
mutually exclusive with swsusp to swapfile.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-26 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-25 15:37 [PATCH 0/6] Swap " Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: Generic swap file support Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: New page_file_* methods Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/6] uml: arch/um remove_mapping() clash Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-29 20:20 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-25 15:37 ` [PATCH 4/6] nfs: Teach NFS about swap cache pages Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 20:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-25 20:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 20:37 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-25 15:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] nfs: Add comment on PG_private use of NFS Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 15:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-26 14:36 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-26 17:30 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2006-08-26 21:54 ` Rik van Riel
2006-08-25 16:36 ` [PATCH 7/6] Lost bits - fix PG_writeback vs PG_private race in NFS Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 20:11 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-08-25 20:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-08-25 21:19 ` Trond Myklebust
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