From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f200.google.com (mail-pf0-f200.google.com [209.85.192.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B5D6B0038 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:14:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f200.google.com with SMTP id v67so129729268pfv.1 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com. [134.134.136.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id yv3si48094138pab.56.2016.09.08.11.14.10 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Huang\, Ying" Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 04/10] mm, THP, swap: Add swap cluster allocate/free functions References: <1473266769-2155-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <1473266769-2155-5-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <57D121AB.8060707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:14:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: <57D121AB.8060707@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (Anshuman Khandual's message of "Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:00:35 +0530") Message-ID: <871t0u5ken.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Anshuman Khandual Cc: "Huang, Ying" , Andrew Morton , tim.c.chen@intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, andi.kleen@intel.com, aaron.lu@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Hugh Dickins , Shaohua Li , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel Anshuman Khandual writes: > On 09/07/2016 10:16 PM, Huang, Ying wrote: >> From: Huang Ying >> >> The swap cluster allocation/free functions are added based on the >> existing swap cluster management mechanism for SSD. These functions >> don't work for the rotating hard disks because the existing swap cluster >> management mechanism doesn't work for them. The hard disks support may >> be added if someone really need it. But that needn't be included in >> this patchset. >> >> This will be used for the THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap support. >> Where one swap cluster will hold the contents of each THP swapped out. > > Which tree this series is based against ? This patch does not apply > on the mainline kernel. This series is based on 8/31 head of mmotm/master. I stated it in 00/10, but I know it is hided inside other text and not obvious at all. Is there some way to make it obvious? Best Regards, Huang, Ying -- 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