Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:01:17 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nfs: avoid swap-over-NFS deadlock
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 06:22:14PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> > Thanks. Sorry for the long delay but I finally got back to the bug this
> > week. NFS can be modified to special case the swapfile but I was not happy
> > with the result for multiple reasons. It took me a while to see a way for
> > the core VM to deal with it. What do you think of the following
> > approach?
> 
> Seems sound to me.
> 
> > More importantly, does it work for you?
> 
> Yes.
> 

Sweet, thanks. It's the merge window now so it won't get fixed now and I
know there is already a collision with the mm merge. I'll rebase and
repost after 4.3-rc1 comes out.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs