From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823C09000C1 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:23:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <1303803414-5937-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1303803414-5937-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:05 +0200 Message-ID: <1303827785.20212.266.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Linux-MM , Linux-Netdev , LKML , David Miller , Neil Brown On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 08:36 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Comments? Last time I brought up the whole swap over network bits I was pointed towards the generic skb recycling work: http://lwn.net/Articles/332037/ as a means to pre-allocate memory, and it was suggested to simply pin the few route-cache entries required to route these packets and dis-allow swap packets to be fragmented (these last two avoid lots of funny allocation cases in the network stack). -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org