Re: [PATCH 0/3] remove rw_page() from brd, pmem and btt

Christoph Hellwig
2017-07-31T07:40:00Z

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 04:36:47PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Do you suggest define something special flag(e.g., SWP_INMEMORY)
> for in-memory swap to swap_info_struct when swapon time manually
> or from bdi_queue_someting automatically?
> And depending the flag of swap_info_struct, use the onstack bio
> instead of dynamic allocation if the swap device is in-memory?

Currently swap always just does I/O on a single page as far
as I can tell, so it can always just use an on-stack bio and
biovec.