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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux-Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking v5
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:27:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110715152738.GA2276@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110715141021.GZ7529@suse.de>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 03:10:21PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Any objection to the swap-over-NBD stuff going ahead to get part of the
> complexity out of the way?

Sure, that's what I was advocating for.  The filesystem interfaces in
the current swap over nbd patches on the other hand are complete crap
and need to be redone, but we've already discussed that a lot of times.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20 13:12 [PATCH 00/14] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking v5 Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes Mel Gorman
2011-07-06 23:44   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-07  9:17     ` Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 02/14] mm: sl[au]b: Add knowledge of PFMEMALLOC reserve pages Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm: Introduce __GFP_MEMALLOC to allow access to emergency reserves Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 04/14] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 05/14] mm: Ignore mempolicies when using ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 06/14] net: Introduce sk_allocation() to allow addition of GFP flags depending on the individual socket Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 07/14] netvm: Allow the use of __GFP_MEMALLOC by specific sockets Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 08/14] netvm: Allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 09/14] netvm: Propagate page->pfmemalloc to skb Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 10/14] netvm: Set PF_MEMALLOC as appropriate during SKB processing Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 11/14] mm: Micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 12/14] nbd: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 13/14] mm: Throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage Mel Gorman
2011-06-20 13:12 ` [PATCH 14/14] mm: Account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled Mel Gorman
2011-07-06 23:51 ` [PATCH 00/14] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking v5 Andrew Morton
2011-07-07  9:47   ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-07 12:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-15 14:10       ` Mel Gorman
2011-07-15 15:27         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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