From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <476999B7.1000203@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:22:47 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15 References: <20071214153907.770251000@chello.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071214153907.770251000@chello.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no List-ID: Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Hi, > > Another posting of the full swap over NFS series. > > Andrew/Linus, could we start thinking of sticking this in -mm? > Two questions: 1 - what is the memory use impact on the system which don't do swap over NFS, such as embedded systems, and 2 - what is the advantage of this code over the two existing network swap approaches, swapping to NFS mounted file and swap to NBD device? I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, so what's better here? -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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