On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 07:09:01AM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > On 06/17/2010 12:13 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 07:44:20AM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > >> Hi Greg, > >> > >> On 05/28/2010 09:56 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:38:53PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > >>>> > >>>> 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. > >>> > >> > >> Can you please apply these patches to linux-next? > > > > Yes, I'm working on it, I should get to it by the end of this week. > > > >> or maybe for .35-rc3/rc4 too? > > > > No, this is not a bugfix, why would it be acceptable for the .35 kernel > > release? > > > > Since its a staging driver, I thought any kind of changes can be pulled in > mainline too. Maybe I still don't understand how -staging works :) staging works like any other part of the kernel tree when it comes to merges with Linus, new stuff only goes in for the -rc1 release, bugfixes only afterward. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
