On 05/28/2010 09:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: > 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 for your reply. Ok, in the meantime, I will further test it and keep building upon it. When rc1 workload is over, I think all this can be merged in linux-next? Thanks, Nitin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
