Re: [PATCH 00/31] Swap over NFS -v20

From: Suresh Jayaraman
Date: Fri Oct 02 2009 - 04:20:58 EST


Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:34:18PM +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
>
> The other really big one is adding a proper method for safe, page-backed
> kernelspace I/O on files. That is not something like the grotty
> swap-tied address_space operations in this patch, but more something in

I'm not sure I understood about what problems you see with the proposed
address_space operations. Could you please elaborate a bit more?

> the direction of the kernel direct I/O patches from Jenx Axboe he did
> for using in the loop driver. But even those aren't complete as they
> don't touch the locking issue yet.
>

Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman
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