Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: Add support for a filesystem to control swap files | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:06:43 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:56 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> I took a look at what was involved with doing the block lookups in > ext4. It's what led to patch 4 of this series because it was necessary that > the filesystem get the same information as the generic handler. It got a > bit messy but looked like it would have worked if I kept at it. I stopped > because I did nt see a major advantage with swap_writepage() looking up > the block map instead of having looked it up in advance with bmap() but > I could have missed something.
IIRC the filesystem folks don't like the bmap thing and would like it to go away.. could be they changed their minds again though, who knows ;-)
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