Re: Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

From: Paul Menage
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 12:10:50 EST


On 10/2/07, Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I accept that full swap control is something you're intending to add
> incrementally later; but the current state doesn't make sense to me.

One comment on swap - ideally it should be a separate subsystem from
the memory controller. That way people who are using cpusets to
provide memory isolation (rather than using the page-based memory
controller) can also get swap isolation.

Paul
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