linux-kernel - Re: Frontswap [PATCH 0/4] (was Transcendent Memory): overview

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Message-ID: <4BD06B31.9050306@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:28:49 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, jeremy@...p.org,
	hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk, ngupta@...are.org, JBeulich@...ell.com,
	chris.mason@...cle.com, kurt.hackel@...cle.com,
	dave.mccracken@...cle.com, npiggin@...e.de,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Frontswap [PATCH 0/4] (was Transcendent Memory): overview

On 04/22/2010 04:42 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite of
> a "backing" store for a swap device.  The storage is assumed to be
> a synchronous concurrency-safe page-oriented pseudo-RAM device (such as
> Xen's Transcendent Memory, aka "tmem", or in-kernel compressed memory,
> aka "zmem", or other RAM-like devices) which is not directly accessible
> or addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly time-varying
> size.  This pseudo-RAM device links itself to frontswap by setting the
> frontswap_ops pointer appropriately and the functions it provides must
> conform to certain policies as follows:
>    

How baked in is the synchronous requirement?  Memory, for example, can 
be asynchronous if it is copied by a dma engine, and since there are 
hardware encryption engines, there may be hardware compression engines 
in the future.


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