From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C3C36B004F for ; Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:05:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Boldi Subject: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:05:36 +0300 References: <200908122007.43522.ngupta@vflare.org> <4A837D5A.3070407@vflare.org> In-Reply-To: <4A837D5A.3070407@vflare.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908130805.36787.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: ngupta@vflare.org, Hugh Dickins Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Nitin Gupta wrote: > BTW, last time compcache was not accepted due to lack of performance > numbers. Now the project has lot more data for various cases: > http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/Performance > Still need to collect data for worst-case behaviors and such... I checked the link, and it looks like you are positioning compcache as a swap replacement. If so, then repositioning it as a compressed pre-swap area working together with normal swap-space, if available, may yield a much more powerful system. Thanks! -- Al -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org