Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 0/9] mm: Use DIO for swap and fix NFS swapfiles

From: NeilBrown
Date: Mon Sep 27 2021 - 23:11:51 EST


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