Re: [PATCH 00/17] Swap-over-NBD without deadlocking V10

On 05/10/2012 08:44 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:

When a user or administrator requires swap for their application, they
create a swap partition and file, format it with mkswap and activate it
with swapon. Swap over the network is considered as an option in diskless
systems. The two likely scenarios are when blade servers are used as part
of a cluster where the form factor or maintenance costs do not allow the
use of disks and thin clients.

Thank you for working on this. I made the attached patch for software
iscsi which has the same issue as nbd.

I tested the patch here and did not notice any performance regressions
or any other bugs.