Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030271AbWILQiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965234AbWILQiH (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1483 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965037AbWILQiD (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:38:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:37:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Peter Zijlstra cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , David Miller , Rik van Riel , Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] vm deadlock avoidance for NFS, NBD and iSCSI (take 7) In-Reply-To: <20060912143049.278065000@chello.nl> Message-ID: References: <20060912143049.278065000@chello.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1010 Lines: 24 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Linus, when I mentioned swap over network to you in Ottawa, you said it was > a valid use case, that people actually do and want this. Can you agree with > the approach taken in these patches? Well, in all honesty, I don't think I really said "valid", but that I said that some crazy people want to do it, and that we should try to allow them their foibles. So I'd be nervous to do any _guarantees_. I think that good VM policies should make it be something that works in general (the dirty mapping limits in particular), but I'd be a bit nervous about anybody taking it _too_ seriously. Crazy people are still crazy, they just might be right under certain reasonably-well-controlled circumstances. Linus - 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/