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Re: [PATCH 00/31] Swap over NFS -v20

From: Suresh Jayaraman <hidden>
Date: 2009-10-02 08:20:48
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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

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