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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion
Hi Mel,

On 08/16/2013 05:12 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:33:47AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 01:26:41PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> It'll get even more entertaining if/when someone ever tries
>> to reimplement zcache although since Dan left I do not believe anyone is
>> planning to try.
>
> I should mention that Bob Liu did some work with zcache recently but is
> now looking like it'll be dropped from staging. I did not look at the
> details and I have no idea if anything else is planned with it.
>

The plan is like this:
Zcache dropped from staging.
As a result, for swap pages compression using zswap(zram).
For file pages compression using my new implemention of zcache(v3)
mm/zcache.c

If there is requirement we can merge zswap and zcachev3 in future!

--
Regards,
-Bob


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