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

[Nitin Gupta]

John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> 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
> 

Looks like simply a better justification could have landed it in mainline :)

Nitin