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From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Swap over NFS -v20
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC5B826.80105@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091001174201.GA30068@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:34:18PM +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> 
> The other really big one is adding a proper method for safe, page-backed
> kernelspace I/O on files.  That is not something like the grotty
> swap-tied address_space operations in this patch, but more something in

I'm not sure I understood about what problems you see with the proposed
address_space operations. Could you please elaborate a bit more?

> the direction of the kernel direct I/O patches from Jenx Axboe he did
> for using in the loop driver.  But even those aren't complete as they
> don't touch the locking issue yet.
> 

Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-02  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-01 14:04 [PATCH 00/31] Swap over NFS -v20 Suresh Jayaraman
2009-10-01 17:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-02  5:52   ` Neil Brown
2009-10-02  8:21   ` Suresh Jayaraman [this message]
2009-10-04 21:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-10 12:06     ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-10 12:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-10 21:10         ` Pavel Machek

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