Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14

[PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 32/33] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS. · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 05/33] mm: kmem_estimate_pages() · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 05/33] mm: kmem_estimate_pages() · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 05/33] mm: kmem_estimate_pages() · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
[PATCH 24/33] mm: prepare swap entry methods for use in page methods · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 03/33] mm: slub: add knowledge of reserve pages · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> · 2007-10-31
[PATCH 16/33] netvm: network reserve infrastructure · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 08/33] mm: emergency pool · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 30/33] nfs: swap vs nfs_writepage · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 26/33] mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 02/33] mm: tag reseve pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 28/33] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 28/33] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages · Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> · 2007-10-31
[PATCH 22/33] netfilter: NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 19/33] netvm: hook skb allocation to reserves · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 13/33] net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv() · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 10/33] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 23/33] netvm: skb processing · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 23/33] netvm: skb processing · Stephen Hemminger <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 23/33] netvm: skb processing · Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 25/33] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 20/33] netvm: filter emergency skbs. · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 01/33] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags() · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 17/33] sysctl: propagate conv errors · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 14/33] net: packet split receive api · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 15/33] net: sk_allocation() - concentrate socket related allocations · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 07/33] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 18/33] netvm: INET reserves. · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 11/33] mm: memory reserve management · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 21/33] netvm: prevent a TCP specific deadlock · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 29/33] nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 27/33] nfs: remove mempools · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 31/33] nfs: enable swap on NFS · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 04/33] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 04/33] mm: allow mempool to fall back to memalloc reserves · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
[PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
[PATCH 12/33] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 33/33] nfs: do not warn on radix tree node allocation failures · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
[PATCH 09/33] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-30
Re: [PATCH 09/33] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 09/33] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Nick Piggin <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Byron Stanoszek <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Pavel Machek <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: NBD was Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Mike Snitzer <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Evgeniy Polyakov <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Jeff Garzik <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Peter Zijlstra <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Gregory Haskins <hidden> · 2007-10-31
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Pavel Machek <hidden> · 2007-11-02
Re: [PATCH 00/33] Swap over NFS -v14 · Robin Humble <hidden> · 2007-11-18

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2007-10-31 04:38:11
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From: Nick Piggin <redacted>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:26:32 +1100

Is it really worth all the added complexity of making swap
over NFS files work, given that you could use a network block
device instead?

Don't be misled.  Swapping over NFS is just a scarecrow for the
seemingly real impetus behind these changes which is network storage
stuff like iSCSI.

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