From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44F0C312.1050300@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:54:26 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS References: <20060825153709.24254.28118.sendpatchset@twins> <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Trond Myklebust List-ID: 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... OTOH, if we never enable this, what motivation do we have to make it safe? :) Scratching an itch works, so maybe we ought to create an itch? -- What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true? -- 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