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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:06:43 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Linux-Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux-NFS <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: Add support for a filesystem to control swap files On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:56 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > I took a look at what was involved with doing the block lookups in > ext4. It's what led to patch 4 of this series because it was necessary that > the filesystem get the same information as the generic handler. It got a > bit messy but looked like it would have worked if I kept at it. I stopped > because I did nt see a major advantage with swap_writepage() looking up > the block map instead of having looked it up in advance with bmap() but > I could have missed something. IIRC the filesystem folks don't like the bmap thing and would like it to go away.. could be they changed their minds again though, who knows ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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