linux-kernel - Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback when swap slot is freed)

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Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:02:23 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: compcache as a pre-swap area (was: [PATCH] swap: send callback  when swap slot is freed)

Nitin Gupta wrote:
> compcache is really not really a swap replacement. Its just another
> swap device that
> compresses data and stores it in memory itself. You can have disk
> based swaps along
> with ramzswap (name of block device).

So once compcache fills up, it will start to age its contents into normal 
swap?


Thanks!

--
Al

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