Hi! > > Can we extend it? Adding new APIs is easy, but harder to maintain in > > the long term. > > Umm... I think the difference between a "new" API and extending > an existing one here is a choice of semantics. As designed, frontswap > is an extremely simple, only-very-slightly-intrusive set of hooks that > allows swap pages to, under some conditions, go to pseudo-RAM instead ... > "Extending" the existing swap API, which has largely been untouched for > many years, seems like a significantly more complex and error-prone > undertaking that will affect nearly all Linux users with a likely long > bug tail. And, by the way, there is no existence proof that it > will be useful. > Seems like a no-brainer to me. Stop right here. Instead of improving existing swap api, you just create one because it is less work. We do not want apis to cummulate; please just fix the existing one. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>