linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS

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Message-ID: <20060826143622.GA5260@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:36:23 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] nfs: Enable swap over NFS

Hi!

> Now that NFS can handle swap cache pages, add a swapfile method to allow
> swapping over NFS.
> 
> NOTE: this dummy method is obviously not enough to make it safe.
> A more complete version of the nfs_swapfile() function will be present
> in the next VM deadlock avoidance patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

We probably do not want to enable functionality before it is safe...

Also swsusp interactions will be interesting. (Rafael is working on
swapfile support these days).
						Pavel
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