Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3]: compressed RAM block device | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:25:20 +1100 |
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On Tuesday 17 March 2009 22:36:46 Nitin Gupta wrote: > drivers/block/Kconfig | 22 + > drivers/block/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/block/compcache.c | 995 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/block/compcache.h | > 160 ++++++++ > 4 files changed, 1178 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > Creates RAM based block device (ramzswap0) which can be used as swap > device. Pages swapped to this are compressed and stored in memory itself. > > The module is called compcache.ko. It depends on: > - xvmalloc.ko: memory allocator > - lzo_compress.ko > - lzo_decompress.ko > > See Documentation/blockdev/compcache.txt for usage details. > > Project home: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/
I wonder how hard it would be to make the compression code use an arbitrary file or device for the storage backend rather than make a new block device? Then you could make a new ram block device that can swap its pages out (or even extend brd.c with that functionality, or use loop on tmpfs etc).
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