From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DCE60021B for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:42:42 -0500 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:41:02 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Magenheimer Subject: RE: Tmem [PATCH 0/5] (Take 3): Transcendent memory In-Reply-To: <20091228205102.GC1637@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Nitin Gupta , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, Rusty Russell , Rik van Riel , dave.mccracken@oracle.com, sunil.mushran@oracle.com, Avi Kivity , Schwidefsky , Balbir Singh , Marcelo Tosatti , Alan Cox , chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-mm , linux-kernel List-ID: > > One feature of frontswap which is different than ramzswap is > > that frontswap acts as a "fronting store" for all configured > > swap devices, including SAN/NAS swap devices. It doesn't > > need to be separately configured as a "highest priority" swap > > device. In many installations and depending on how ramzswap >=20 > Ok, I'd call it a bug, not a feature :-). > =09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09Pavel I agree it has little value (or might be considered a bug) when managing Linux on a physical machine. But when Linux is running in a virtual machine, it's one less thing that a sysadmin needs to understand and configure. -- 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