From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: ngupta@vflare.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-mm-cc <linux-mm-cc@laptop.org>,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:01:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0909211244510.6209@sister.anvils>
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
<hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> The callback setup from ->read() just looks gross. However, it's your
>> call Hugh so I'll just shut up now. ;-)
>
> Ah, no, please don't! So it's _that_ end of it that's upsetting you,
> and rightly so, I hadn't grasped that.
Heh, right. :-)
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
<hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> (Nitin, your patch division is quite wrong: you should present a patch
> in which your driver works, albeit poorly, without the notifier; then
> a patch in which the notifier is added at the swapfile.c end and your
> driver end, so we can see how they fit together.)
Yes, please. Such standalone driver could go into drivers/staging for
2.6.32 probably.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-21 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 22:43 [PATCH 0/4] compcache: in-memory compressed swapping v3 Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 21:05 ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-22 3:50 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] send callback when swap slot is freed Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 6:53 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18 7:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18 7:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18 7:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-18 9:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-18 15:04 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19 7:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-20 15:02 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 11:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:07 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 11:12 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 11:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-09-21 12:01 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-09-22 3:04 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-21 12:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 12:29 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 9:59 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-19 5:47 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-09-24 1:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtual block device driver (ramzswap) Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 20:48 ` Marcin Slusarz
2009-09-17 22:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-09-18 16:43 ` [PATCH] ramzswap prefix for swap free callback Nitin Gupta
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