From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64D96B0069 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:34:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT." <20139.5644.583790.903531@quad.stoffel.home> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <75efb251-7a5e-4aca-91e2-f85627090363@default> <20111027215243.GA31644@infradead.org> <1319785956.3235.7.camel@lappy> <552d2067-474d-4aef-a9a4-89e5fd8ef84f@default> <20111028163053.GC1319@redhat.com> <3982e04f-8607-4f0a-b855-2e7f31aaa6f7@default> <20139.5644.583790.903531@quad.stoffel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:32:54 -0500 Message-ID: <201529.1320618774@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: John Stoffel Cc: Dan Magenheimer , Johannes Weiner , Pekka Enberg , Cyclonus J , Sasha Levin , Christoph Hellwig , David Rientjes , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Konrad Wilk , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Seth Jennings , ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason , JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen , Jonathan Corbet --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said: > Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to > Dan> add RAM to your systems. > > So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM? You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :) There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a forklift upgrade to a new machine. > if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more > memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more > performance out of this expensive hardware. It's not always a large system.... --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOtwsWcC3lWbTT17ARAlvfAKCoKX68t1pDd8M1xDoZuSpVYUljjACfRYID 7BmJgF1WCyqaQVF50mbeXUg= =pNIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org