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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nitin Gupta <nitingupta.mail@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: why its dead now?
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:28:46 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511142227540.15035@cuia.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f68e01850511131035l3f0530aft6076f156d4f62171@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> Are there any serious drawbacks to this?

Compressed caching may be hard to tune right for some workloads.
I cannot see any other drawbacks - certainly nothing that should
keep you from working on it...

> Do you think it will be of any use if ported to 2.6 kernel?

It has the potential to be very useful.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-15  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-13 18:35 Nitin Gupta
2005-11-14 19:58 ` Rodrigo S de Castro
2005-11-15  3:28 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2005-11-15 14:27 ` Scott F. H. Kaplan
2005-11-19 23:30   ` Rik van Riel
2005-11-20  2:24     ` Scott F. H. Kaplan

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