2007-08-03 12:13:36

by Torsten Kaiser

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Subject: Re: ATA over ethernet swapping and obfuscated code

On 7/31/07, Ed L. Cashin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is easy to chat, though. Maybe someday I will test and submit a
> patch that implements this mechanism, but I'm hoping that somebody
> beats me to it. :)

There is already such a mechanism (planned).

swap over networked storage -v11
http://lwn.net/Articles/223057/

"... Also knowing it is headed towards the VM needs a little help, hence we
introduce the socket flag SOCK_VMIO to mark sockets with. ..."

But it seems it did not make it into -mm.

HTH

Torsten