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From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-mm-cc <linux-mm-cc@laptop.org>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:34:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB83EB5.60307@vflare.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/21/2009 05:31 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
> 
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
> <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> (Nitin, your patch division is quite wrong: you should present a patch
>> in which your driver works, albeit poorly, without the notifier; then
>> a patch in which the notifier is added at the swapfile.c end and your
>> driver end, so we can see how they fit together.)
> 
> Yes, please. Such standalone driver could go into drivers/staging for
> 2.6.32 probably.
> 


Ok, for now all I will remove all swap notifier bits from the patches so
they reside completely in drivers/staging/. That should make it easier for
GregKH to merge it. The problematic swap notifier part will be added later.

Thanks to you and Hugh for looking into these patches.

Nitin

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-22  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 22:43 [PATCH 0/4] compcache: in-memory compressed swapping v3 Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 21:05   ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-22  3:50     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18  6:53   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  7:17     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  7:55       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  7:59         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  9:33           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18 15:04             ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19  7:27               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-20 15:02                 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 11:17                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:07                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:12                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 11:55                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 12:01                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-22  3:04                         ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2009-09-21 12:08                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 12:29                         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18  9:59       ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19  5:47       ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-24  1:39   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 20:48   ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 16:43 ` [PATCH] ramzswap prefix for swap free callback Nitin Gupta

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