[linux-mm-cc] compcache-0.5 released

[Nitin Gupta]

Hi All,

This is to announce compcache-0.5 release. New stuff in this release:

- New xvMalloc memory allocator: This replaces TLSF allocator used in
0.4 release. It removes artificial size limits on compcache
(especially on 32-bit systems) . Wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/xvMalloc has all the details.

- Ability to discard memory associated with free swap blocks: In
previous 0.4 release we had no way to determine if some swap slot have
now become free and hence can release memory allocated for those
pages. Now,
2.6.29-rc1 includes "swap discard" feature that gives us a callback to
let us know of such free swap slots and we can easily free this
memory. If compcache is used with kernels older than 2.6.29-rc1, this
swap discard feature will be disabled.

- Improved stats reporting: We now export more stats and also name
them properly.

Cheers,
Nitin