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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:57:27 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iomap: add a swapfile activation function
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 04:46:22PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> (I mean, we /could/ just treat the swapfile as an unbreakable rdma/dax
> style lease, but ugh...)

That is what I think it should be long term, instead of a strange
parallel I/O path.

But in the mean time we have a real problem with supporting swap files,
so we should merge the approaches from you and Aleksei and get something
in ASAP.