On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 06:51:21AM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > 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? Yes, I think so. It is in my queue to do so. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
