Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:21:54 +0300 | From | Adrian Hunter <> | Subject | Re: swap on eMMC and other flash |
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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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