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SubjectRe: swap on eMMC and other flash
On 30/03/12 21:50, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> (sorry for the duplicated email, this corrects the address of the android
> kernel team, please reply here)
>
> On Friday 30 March 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> We've had a discussion in the Linaro storage team (Saugata, Venkat and me,
> with Luca joining in on the discussion) about swapping to flash based media
> such as eMMC. This is a summary of what we found and what we think should
> be done. If people agree that this is a good idea, we can start working
> on it.

There is mtdswap.

Also the old Nokia N900 had swap to eMMC.

The last I heard was that swap was considered to be simply too slow on hand
held devices.

As systems adopt more RAM, isn't there a decreasing demand for swap?


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