Re: Path forward for Virtualized Swap?

[Nhat Pham]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 3:57 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm)
<david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/8/26 18:45, Nhat Pham wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/4/26 23:14, Nhat Pham wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> To Kairui, Johannes, Yosry, Chris, David, Andrew, and other (z)swap folks -
> >>> I need some help here.
> >>
> >> I'll mostly ignore swap-related stuff because (a) -EBUSY and (b) we have quite
> >> some swap experts around :)
> >>
> >> Reading below, I do wonder if the swap subsystem needs some more coordination
> >> and collaboration?
> >>
> >> For example, maybe having bi-weekly/monthly meetings to get everybody aligned
> >> and uptodate could be something reasonable?
> >>
> >> This approach has proven fairly helpful in areas where (1) multiple companies
> >> are involved (2) many concurrent development is happening, and (3) people have
> >> different priorities and requirements.
> >>
> >> Is there already something like that to organize development? Should we get
> >> started with that?
> >
> > Hi David!
>
> Hi!
>
> >
> > Thank you for your suggestions :) More collaboration and communication
> > is definitely needed here. Conference is a good place for this, but
> > it's not something we can do very frequently, and many folks could not
> > attend (visa issues, etc.).
>
> Right, and conferences usually don't have the capacity to squeeze too many
> swap-related topics in, so it would have to be side discussions or BOFs.
>
> >
> > A bi-weekly/monthly series of meetings sound very appealing. Swap
> > contributors are very spread out (China, NorAm, Europe, etc.), so
> > coordination will be tricky, but let us figure out something.
>
> Yes, that's an issue. I'd suggest swap maintainers take care of that if they
> agree. I could try as well, but it's rather tricky right now on my end ...
>
> As an alternative, we could also use on/two/ ... slots in the bi-weekly MM
> alignment session to talk about swap. (I'd be happy to learn more about all this
> as well)

That's awesome! Thanks for the offer David - I think MM alignment is at 9AM
PDT Wednesday, usually right? That works for me of course, but Baoquan
and Kairui (and other swap folks) - would this time be convenient for
you?


>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David