[linux-mm-cc] [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5

John McCabe-Dansted gmatht at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 09:31:10 EDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   - Links to more performance numbers, use cases can be found at:
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/17/116
>>
>> The sole, whole, entire point of this patchset is performance.  Yet
>> after chasing a few scruffy links, the only data we have to justify
>> merging _any_ of this stuff is, and I quote,

FYI, I disagree with this. AFAICT from the point of view of the Ubuntu project
the "sole, whole, entire point" of this patchset is "to lower memory
requirements in various [diskless] setups.", e.g. LiveCDs and LTSP.
   https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Compcache

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John C. McCabe-Dansted
PhD Student
University of Western Australia


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