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