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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: ngupta@vflare.org
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-mm-cc <linux-mm-cc@laptop.org>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:27:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB487FD.5060207@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB3A16B.90009@vflare.org>

Hi Nitin,

Nitin Gupta wrote:
> It is understood that this swap notify callback is bit of a hack. I think
> we will not gain much trying to beautify this hack. However, I agree with
> Hugh's suggestion to rename this notify callback related function/variables
> to make it explicit that its completely ramzswap related. I will send a 
> path that affects these renames as reply to patch 0/4.

I don't quite agree and do think that my approach is a better long-term 
solution. That said, it's Hugh's call, not mine. Hugh?

			Pekka

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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: ngupta@vflare.org
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-mm-cc <linux-mm-cc@laptop.org>,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:27:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB487FD.5060207@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB3A16B.90009@vflare.org>

Hi Nitin,

Nitin Gupta wrote:
> It is understood that this swap notify callback is bit of a hack. I think
> we will not gain much trying to beautify this hack. However, I agree with
> Hugh's suggestion to rename this notify callback related function/variables
> to make it explicit that its completely ramzswap related. I will send a 
> path that affects these renames as reply to patch 0/4.

I don't quite agree and do think that my approach is a better long-term 
solution. That said, it's Hugh's call, not mine. Hugh?

			Pekka

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17 22:43 [PATCH 0/4] compcache: in-memory compressed swapping v3 Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 21:05   ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-18 21:05     ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-22  3:50     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-22  3:50       ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18  6:53   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  6:53     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  7:17     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  7:17       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  7:55       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  7:55         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  7:59         ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  7:59           ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18  9:33           ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18  9:33             ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18 15:04             ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 15:04               ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19  7:27               ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-09-19  7:27                 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-20 15:02                 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-20 15:02                   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 11:17                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:17                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:07                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:07                   ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:12                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 11:12                     ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 11:55                     ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:55                       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 12:01                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 12:01                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-22  3:04                         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-22  3:04                           ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 12:08                       ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 12:08                         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 12:29                         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 12:29                           ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18  9:59       ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18  9:59         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19  5:47       ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19  5:47         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-24  1:39   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-24  1:39     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 20:48   ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-18 20:48     ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 16:43 ` [PATCH] ramzswap prefix for swap free callback Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 16:43   ` Nitin Gupta

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