Re: [PATCH] iomap: add a swapfile activation function

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:57:27PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 04:46:22PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > (I mean, we /could/ just treat the swapfile as an unbreakable rdma/dax
> > style lease, but ugh...)
> 
> That is what I think it should be long term, instead of a strange
> parallel I/O path.
> 
> But in the mean time we have a real problem with supporting swap files,
> so we should merge the approaches from you and Aleksei and get something
> in ASAP.

I'm planning to do something along these lines for Btrfs, as well (have
swap_activate add the swap extents itself), because the previous thing I
tried with going through ->read_iter() and ->write_iter() ran into too
many locking issues (i.e., GFP_NOFS can suddenly go through FS locks).
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