[linux-mm-cc] Update compcache structure

[Anderson Briglia]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Anderson,
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Anderson Briglia <anderson at briglia.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm back to old Compressed Cache working (now it's ramzswap). Well,
>> I'd like to know if that chunks approach is still being used. I
>> noticed that a new allocator was specially implemented for ramzswap
>> but is it using chunks approach for compressed pages storage?
>>
>
> xvMalloc allocator is completely different from "chunks" based approach
> used in very early patches (which you worked on).

Humm.. as I suspected. :)
Maybe should I take a look that paper about TLSF? I read in project's
site that xvMalloc is based in TLSF.

>
>> I intend to begin the tests for ARM architecture using swapless devices.
>>
>
> This would be great!
>
>  - Nitin
>