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From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3]: compressed in-memory swapping
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:34:31 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090317T233246-703@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BF8ABC.6040805@vflare.org>

Nitin Gupta <ngupta <at> vflare.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/
> 
> 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.
> 

I would recommend making xvmalloc the 1/3 instead of 2/3 so that the commit is
bisectable.

I really like this project and I'm especially impressed with how the SSD ATAPI
discard command fell in nicely with the discard requirement for compcache.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17 11:34 Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 11:36 ` [PATCH 1/3]: compressed RAM block device Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 12:25   ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-18 12:38     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 12:49       ` Nick Piggin
2009-03-20 18:56   ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-20 19:53     ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 11:37 ` [PATCH 2/3]: xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 16:41   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-17 17:55     ` Nitin Gupta
     [not found]     ` <d760cf2d0903171028o600dc94cn7a5238520d104455@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-17 17:58       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-17 18:34         ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-18 16:07           ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 15:17         ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 16:58           ` Christoph Lameter
2009-03-18 17:29             ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-18 19:21               ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-18 19:36                 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-19  2:30                 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-03-19  6:08                   ` Pekka Enberg
2009-03-17 11:38 ` [PATCH 3/3]: documentation Nitin Gupta
2009-03-17 23:34 ` Russ Dill [this message]

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