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* [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take2
@ 2009-03-20 14:07 Nitin Gupta
  2009-03-20 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] compressed RAM block device Nitin Gupta
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From: Nitin Gupta @ 2009-03-20 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Pekka Enberg, Christoph Lameter; +Cc: linux-kernel

Hi,

It allows creating a RAM based block device which acts as swap disk.
Pages swapped to this device are compressed and stored in memory itself.
This is a big win over swapping to slow hard-disk which are typically used
as swap disk. For flash, these suffer from wear-leveling issues when used
as swap disk - so again its helpful. For swapless systems, it allows more
apps to run.

* Changelog: take2 vs initial revision:
xvmalloc changes:
  - Use Linux kernel coding sytle for xvmalloc
  - Collapse all individual flag test/set/get to generic {test_set_get}_flag
  - Added BLOCK_NEXT() macro to reach next contiguous block
  - Other minor cleanups - no functional changes
compcache block device code:
  - compcache core changes due to change in xvmalloc interface names

Links to performance numbers, use cases can be found in original thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/17/116

Thanks to Christoph and Pekka for feedback on initial revision.

Thanks,
Nitin

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2009-03-20 14:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 14:57   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-20 16:24     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 17:40       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-20 19:01         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-20 19:43           ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 10:21             ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 12:12               ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 12:24                 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 13:14                   ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 16:21                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-21 17:36                     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-20 14:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] compcache documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 10:26   ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-21 12:31     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-21 12:55       ` Andrew Morton

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