Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756125Ab0FQBiz (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:38:55 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:47366 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755448Ab0FQBiy (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:38:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4C197CB5.5020907@vflare.org> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:09:01 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Pekka Enberg , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Hugh Dickins , Cyp , driverdev , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] zram: generic RAM based compressed R/W block devices References: <1274710685-2351-1-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <4BFFEA95.9040505@vflare.org> <20100528162657.GA28781@kroah.com> <4C18337C.3040605@vflare.org> <20100616184355.GA14248@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20100616184355.GA14248@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1835 Lines: 54 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 :) Anyways, thanks for taking it in linux-next. Nitin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/