linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:09:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	ngupta@...are.org
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, penberg@...helsinki.fi,
	edt@....ca, linux-mm-cc@...top.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> Justification for this custom allocator is present in xvmalloc changelog
> itself. It gives reason for not using SLUB and SLOB. During review
> cycle, I never got any arguments against that justification.

The use of highmem is pretty unique. But that restrict the usefulness to
32 bit processors with too much RAM.

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