Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762788AbXJDQKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:10:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762224AbXJDQKc (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:10:32 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:13971 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760117AbXJDQK3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:10:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=gGu1UYblDEm5bXnGAiHeFlS3/p6tMFtMEMJu6cxriClfqKmOrUW06C93X8Up5g0VL bAY/nlnC2kOd7KGAgi1NQ== Message-ID: <6599ad830710040910u3696df8p3c0448555cac23e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 09:10:02 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Hugh Dickins" Subject: Re: Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Cc: "Balbir Singh" , "Andrew Morton" , "Pavel Emelianov" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071001142222.fcaa8d57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4701C737.8070906@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 16 On 10/2/07, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I accept that full swap control is something you're intending to add > incrementally later; but the current state doesn't make sense to me. One comment on swap - ideally it should be a separate subsystem from the memory controller. That way people who are using cpusets to provide memory isolation (rather than using the page-based memory controller) can also get swap isolation. Paul - 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/