Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030218AbWHZQJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:09:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030231AbWHZQJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:09:45 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:27910 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030218AbWHZQJp (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:09:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:36:23 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS Message-ID: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz> References: <20060825153709.24254.28118.sendpatchset@twins> <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060825153812.24254.9718.sendpatchset@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 23 Hi! > Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow > swapping over NFS. > > NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe. > A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present > in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe... Also swsusp interactions will be interesting. (Rafael is working on swapfile support these days). Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/