From: "NeilBrown" <neilb@suse.de>
To: "David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 0/9] mm: Use DIO for swap and fix NFS swapfiles
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:11:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <163279868982.18792.10448745714922373194@noble.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <163250387273.2330363.13240781819520072222.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, David Howells wrote:
> Whilst trying to make this work, I found that NFS's support for swapfiles
> seems to have been non-functional since Aug 2019 (I think), so the first
> patch fixes that. Question is: do we actually *want* to keep this
> functionality, given that it seems that no one's tested it with an upstream
> kernel in the last couple of years?
SUSE definitely want to keep this functionality. We have customers
using it.
I agree it would be good if it was being tested somewhere....
Thanks,
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-28 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-24 17:17 [RFC][PATCH v3 0/9] mm: Use DIO for swap and fix NFS swapfiles David Howells
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] mm: Remove the callback func argument from __swap_writepage() David Howells
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] mm: Add 'supports' field to the address_space_operations to list features David Howells
2021-09-24 20:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] mm: Make swap_readpage() void David Howells
2021-09-24 22:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] Introduce IOCB_SWAP kiocb flag to trigger REQ_SWAP David Howells
2021-09-26 21:56 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] mm: Make swap_readpage() for SWP_FS_OPS use ->swap_rw() not ->readpage() David Howells
2021-09-24 17:18 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] mm: Make __swap_writepage() do async DIO if asked for it David Howells
2021-09-24 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] nfs: Fix write to swapfile failure due to generic_write_checks() David Howells
2021-09-24 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] block, btrfs, ext4, xfs: Implement swap_rw David Howells
2021-09-24 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] mm: Remove swap BIO paths and only use DIO paths David Howells
2021-09-25 14:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-25 15:36 ` David Howells
2021-09-25 17:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-26 23:08 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-09-27 1:25 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-27 1:41 ` Damien Le Moal
2021-09-27 20:03 ` David Sterba
2021-09-25 23:42 ` [RFC][PATCH v3 0/9] mm: Use DIO for swap and fix NFS swapfiles Dave Chinner
2021-09-26 3:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-09-26 22:36 ` Dave Chinner
2021-09-27 20:07 ` David Sterba
2021-09-28 3:11 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2021-09-30 15:54 ` Steve French
2021-09-29 15:45 ` David Howells
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