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From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Luca Porzio (lporzio)" <lporzio@micron.com>,
	Alex Lemberg <alex.lemberg@sandisk.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Saugata Das <saugata.das@linaro.org>,
	Venkatraman S <venkat@linaro.org>,
	Yejin Moon <yejin.moon@samsung.com>,
	Hyojin Jeong <syr.jeong@samsung.com>,
	"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: swap on eMMC and other flash
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:21:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7C3CE2.5070803@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201203301850.22784.arnd@arndb.de>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 17:44 Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-30 18:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-03-30 22:08   ` Zach Pfeffer
2012-03-31  9:24     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-03 18:17       ` Zach Pfeffer
2012-03-31 20:29   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-02 11:45     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-02 14:41       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-02 14:55         ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-05  0:17           ` 정효진
2012-04-09 12:50             ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-08 13:50           ` Alex Lemberg
2012-04-09  2:14             ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-09  7:37               ` 정효진
2012-04-09  8:11                 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-09 13:00                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-10  1:10                     ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-10  8:40                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-12  8:32                         ` Luca Porzio (lporzio)
2012-04-09 12:54                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-02 12:52     ` Luca Porzio (lporzio)
2012-04-02 14:58       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-04-02 16:51         ` Rik van Riel
2012-04-04 12:21   ` Adrian Hunter [this message]
2012-04-04 12:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-11 10:28       ` Adrian Hunter
2012-07-16 13:29         ` Pavel Machek
2012-04-06  7:15 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-06 16:16   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-09  2:06     ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-09 12:35       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-10  0:57         ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-10  8:32           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-11  9:54             ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-11 15:57               ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-12  2:36                 ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-16 18:22                 ` Stephan Uphoff
2012-04-16 18:59                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-04-16 21:12                     ` Stephan Uphoff
2012-04-17  2:18                       ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-17  2:05                     ` Minchan Kim
2012-04-27  7:34                   ` Luca Porzio (lporzio)

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