Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:34:29 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] compcache: in-memory compressed swapping v2 | From | Nitin Gupta <> |
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote: >> On 09/10/2009 03:32 AM, Nitin Gupta wrote: >> > Project home: http://compcache.googlecode.com/ >> > >> > * Changelog: v2 vs initial revision >> > - Use 'struct page' instead of 32-bit PFNs in ramzswap driver and >> > xvmalloc. >> > This is to make these 64-bit safe. >> > - xvmalloc is no longer a separate module and does not export any symbols. >> > Its compiled directly with ramzswap block driver. This is to avoid any >> > last bit of confusion with any other allocator. >> > - set_swap_free_notify() now accepts block_device as parameter instead of >> > swp_entry_t (interface cleanup). >> > - Fix: Make sure ramzswap disksize matches usable pages in backing swap >> > file. >> > This caused initialization error in case backing swap file had >> > intra-page >> > fragmentation. >> >> Can anyone please review these patches for possible inclusion in 2.6.32? > > Sorry, I certainly wouldn't be able to review them for 2.6.32 myself. > > Since we're already in the merge window, and this work has not yet > had exposure in mmotm (preferably) or linux-next, I really doubt > anyone should be pushing it for 2.6.32. > > I'd be quite glad to see it and experiment with it in mmotm, > so it could go into 2.6.33 if all okay. And I now fully accept > that the discard/trim situation is so hazy that you are quite > right to be asking for your own well-defined notifier instead. > > But I'm not going to pretend to have reviewed it. >
Thanks for the pointer Hugh -- I will try to post patches against mmotm later.
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