[linux-mm-cc] Re: [lc-devel] Chunk list issues

[Rik van Riel]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Asbjørn Sannes wrote:

> What should be considered here is how do we actually "migrate" a page
> like this? Because this isn't done very often normally (how often do you
> add/deactive swap areas) it is my understanding that this is an
> expensive process, which is why we can't really do it, a proposal is to
> instead of having a "vswap" area,

For systems that actually have a disk, it is probably best
to implement compressed caching for swap cache pages.

Vswap is more useful for systems without swap, like the
OLPC laptops...

Lets not confuse the two.

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