From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> References: <20060825153709.24254.28118.sendpatchset@twins> <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:30:55 +0200 Message-Id: <1156613455.23000.7.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Trond Myklebust List-ID: 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 > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org