Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)

Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28T14:26:27Z

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I felt it would be difficult to try and merge any tmem KVM patches until
>> both frontswap and cleancache are in the kernel, thats why the
>> development is currently paused at the POC level.
>
> Same here. I am working a KVM support for Transcedent Memory as well.
> It would be nice to see this in the mainline.

We don't really merge code for future projects - especially when it
touches the core kernel.

As for the frontswap patches, there's pretty no ACKs from MM people
apart from one Reviewed-by from Andrew. I really don't see why the
pull request is sent directly to Linus...

Pekka