On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:38:53PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > Hi All, > > On 05/24/2010 07:48 PM, Nitin Gupta wrote: > > Creates RAM based block devices: /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...). > > Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory > > itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides > > good amounts of memory savings. > > > > This is enhancement over existing ramzswap driver which creates > > virtual block devices (/dev/ramzswapX) which could be used only > > as swap disks. > > > > Now, with the ability to handle any kind of I/O request, zram > > devices have lot more use cases: > > - /tmp storage > > - various caches under /var > > - swap disks > > - maybe even more! :) > > > > Performance numbers can be found at: > > http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/zramperf > > > > Any reviews/comments, please? We are all busy with the .35-rc1 merge work at the moment, sorry. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
