From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
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: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:34:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB83EB5.60307@vflare.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020909210501l4a216205q85523a06f4589f2a@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/21/2009 05:31 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Hugh Dickins
>
> 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.
>
Ok, for now all I will remove all swap notifier bits from the patches so
they reside completely in drivers/staging/. That should make it easier for
GregKH to merge it. The problematic swap notifier part will be added later.
Thanks to you and Hugh for looking into these patches.
Nitin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 3:10 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
2009-09-22 3:04 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
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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