From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCF66B004D for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2009 04:11:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AC5B826.80105@suse.de> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:58 +0530 From: Suresh Jayaraman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Swap over NFS -v20 References: <1254405858-15651-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> <20091001174201.GA30068@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20091001174201.GA30068@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , Miklos Szeredi , Wouter Verhelst , Peter Zijlstra , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org