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SubjectRe: Frontswap [PATCH 0/4] (was Transcendent Memory): overview
Hi!

> > 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.
>
> > If we added all the apis that worked when proposed, we'd have
> > unmaintanable mess by about 1996.
> >
> > Why can't frontswap just use existing swap api?
>
> Hi Pavel!
>
> The existing swap API as it stands is inadequate for an efficient
> synchronous interface (e.g. for swapping to RAM). Both Nitin
> and I independently have found this to be true. But swap-to-RAM

So... how much slower is swapping to RAM over current interface when
compared to proposed interface, and how much is that slower than just
using the memory directly?
Pavel
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