Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: Add support for a filesystem to control swap files
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From: Peter Zijlstra <hidden>
Date: 2011-09-12 09:56:37
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On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 10:34 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:04:45AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:quoted
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 09:36 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:quoted
The equivalent of ->direct_IO should be used for both reads and writes.So the difference between DIO and swapIO is that swapIO needs the block map pinned in memory.. So at the very least you'll need those swap_{activate,deactivate} aops. The read/write-page thingies could indeed be shared with DIO.I'm travelling at the moment so it'll be later in the week when I investigate properly but I agree swap_[de|a]ctivate are still necessary. NFS does not need to pin a block map but it's still necessary for calling xs_set_memalloc.
Right.. but I think the hope was that we could replace the current swap bmap hackery with this and simplify the normal swap bits. But yeah, networked filesystems don't really bother with block maps on the client side ;-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>