[linux-mm-cc] cant compile with 2.6.32 - Arch linux

[Nitin Gupta]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Tibor Bamhor
<tibor.bamhor at netkosice.sk> wrote:
> Thanks for information
> This PKGBUILD (for arch linux) covers only compilation of modules - no
> recompilation of kernel(too complicated). So it seems that it will not help
> in this situation.
>
> Yet another questions, what exactly means that compcache will be in kernel
> (from 2.6.33)? Will vanila kernel provide everything? Including modules that
> are now compiled from sources downloaded from homepage?

Vanilla kernel (2.6.33) contains all ramzswap code except a small
portion of code
which allows ramzswap to eliminate any stale data in memory. Without this small
piece of code, ramzswap can actually degrade system performance since stale
data can quickly accumulate in memory, defeating the whole purpose of compressed
caching.

This small bit of code has now been accepted into '-mm tree', but not
sure when it
will be integrated in mainline Linux kernel.

Since bulk of code is already in mainline, future release will simply
be patches against
this existing in-kernel code that implement functionality (or fixes)
which are not yet
included in mainline. Eventually, when all these bits enter mainline,
there will be not
separate release from project page.

> For arch linux we
> currently have an init script, will it still be needed?
>

Not sure what this script does.

Thanks,
Nitin