From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E0566B004D for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:02:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Boldi Subject: Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:02:23 +0300 References: <200908122007.43522.ngupta@vflare.org> <200908130805.36787.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908140702.23947.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Nitin Gupta Cc: Hugh Dickins , Matthew Wilcox , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Nitin Gupta wrote: > compcache is really not really a swap replacement. Its just another > swap device that > compresses data and stores it in memory itself. You can have disk > based swaps along > with ramzswap (name of block device). So once compcache fills up, it will start to age its contents into normal swap? 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