From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:36:23 +0000 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS Message-ID: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> References: <20060825153709.24254.28118.sendpatchset@twins> <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Trond Myklebust List-ID: 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... Also swsusp interactions will be interesting. (Rafael is working on swapfile support these days). Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. -- 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