Hi! > > Stop right here. Instead of improving existing swap api, you just > > create one because it is less work. > > > > We do not want apis to cummulate; please just fix the existing one. > > > If we added all the apis that worked when proposed, we'd have > > unmaintanable mess by about 1996. > > > > Why can't frontswap just use existing swap api? > > Hi Pavel! > > The existing swap API as it stands is inadequate for an efficient > synchronous interface (e.g. for swapping to RAM). Both Nitin > and I independently have found this to be true. But swap-to-RAM So... how much slower is swapping to RAM over current interface when compared to proposed interface, and how much is that slower than just using the memory directly? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>