On 05/10/2012 08:44 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
> create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
> with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
> systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
> of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
> use of disks and thin clients.

Thank you for working on this. I made the attached patch for software
iscsi which has the same issue as nbd.

I tested the patch here and did not notice any performance regressions
or any other bugs.