Re: Path forward for Virtualized Swap?

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 9/8/26 18:45, Nhat Pham wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/4/26 23:14, Nhat Pham wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> To Kairui, Johannes, Yosry, Chris, David, Andrew, and other (z)swap folks -
>>> I need some help here.
>>
>> I'll mostly ignore swap-related stuff because (a) -EBUSY and (b) we have quite
>> some swap experts around :)
>>
>> Reading below, I do wonder if the swap subsystem needs some more coordination
>> and collaboration?
>>
>> For example, maybe having bi-weekly/monthly meetings to get everybody aligned
>> and uptodate could be something reasonable?
>>
>> This approach has proven fairly helpful in areas where (1) multiple companies
>> are involved (2) many concurrent development is happening, and (3) people have
>> different priorities and requirements.
>>
>> Is there already something like that to organize development? Should we get
>> started with that?
> 
> Hi David!

Hi!

> 
> Thank you for your suggestions :) More collaboration and communication
> is definitely needed here. Conference is a good place for this, but
> it's not something we can do very frequently, and many folks could not
> attend (visa issues, etc.).

Right, and conferences usually don't have the capacity to squeeze too many
swap-related topics in, so it would have to be side discussions or BOFs.

> 
> A bi-weekly/monthly series of meetings sound very appealing. Swap
> contributors are very spread out (China, NorAm, Europe, etc.), so
> coordination will be tricky, but let us figure out something.

Yes, that's an issue. I'd suggest swap maintainers take care of that if they
agree. I could try as well, but it's rather tricky right now on my end ...

As an alternative, we could also use on/two/ ... slots in the bi-weekly MM
alignment session to talk about swap. (I'd be happy to learn more about all this
as well)

-- 
Cheers,

David