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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] zram: generic RAM based compressed R/W block devices
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:51:21AM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 09:56 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:38:53PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> On 05/24/2010 07:48 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> >>> Creates RAM based block devices: /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
> >>> Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
> >>> itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
> >>> good amounts of memory savings.
> >>>
> >>> This is enhancement over existing ramzswap driver which creates
> >>> virtual block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which could be used only
> >>> as swap disks.
> >>>
> >>> Now, with the ability to handle any kind of I/O request, zram
> >>> devices have lot more use cases:
> >>> - /tmp storage
> >>> - various caches under /var
> >>> - swap disks
> >>> - maybe even more! :)
> >>>
> >>> Performance numbers can be found at:
> >>> http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/zramperf
> >>>
> >>
> >> Any reviews/comments, please?
> >
> > We are all busy with the .35-rc1 merge work at the moment, sorry.
> >
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Ok, in the meantime, I will further test it and keep building upon it.
> When rc1 workload is over, I think all this can be merged in linux-next?

Yes, I think so. It is in my queue to do so.

thanks,

greg k-h


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