Messages in this thread | | | From | Russ Dill <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3]: compressed in-memory swapping | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:34:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
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