Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] drivers/staging: zcache: host services and PAM services
From: Minchan Kim <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-08 22:48:24
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Magenheimer [off-list ref] wrote:
[PATCH V2 2/3] drivers/staging: zcache: host services and PAM services
Zcache provides host services (memory allocation) for tmem,
a "shim" to interface cleancache and frontswap to tmem, and
two different page-addressable memory implemenations using
lzo1x compression. The first, "compression buddies" ("zbud")
compresses pairs of pages and supplies a shrinker interface
that allows entire pages to be reclaimed. The second is
a shim to xvMalloc which is more space-efficient but
less receptive to page reclamation. The first is used
for ephemeral pools and the second for persistent pools.
All ephemeral pools share the same memory, that is, even
pages from different pools can share the same page.
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <redacted>Hi Dan, First of all, thanks for endless effort. I didn't look at code entirely but it seems this series includes frontswap. Finally frontswap is to replace zram? If it is right, how about approaching one by one for easy review and merging? I mean firstly we replace zram into frontswap and tmem and then zcache. Regardless of my suggestion, I will look at the this series in my spare time. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>