Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 May 2007 02:55:10 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/40] Swap over Networked storage -v12 |
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On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:26:51 +0200, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote: >>> There is a fundamental deadlock associated with paging;
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:27:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote: >> I know you'd really like people like myself to review this work, but a >> set of 40 patches is just too much to try and digest at once >> especially when I have other things going on. When I have lots of >> other things already on my plate, when I see a huge patch set like >> this I have to just say "delete" because I don't kid myself since >> I know I'll never get to it. >> Sorry there's now way I can review this with my current workload.
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:43:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > There also quite alot of only semi-related thing in there. It would > be much better to only do the network stack and iscsi parts first > and leave nfs out for a while. Especially as the former are definitively > useful while I strongly doubt that for swap over nfs.
This is backward. As much as we hate it, the common case is swap over nfs, essentially because that is/was how things were commonly set up for other operating systems. I'm not a Solaris administrator, though, so various disclaimers apply.
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