From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx157.postini.com [74.125.245.157]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 360176B0068 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 09:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e32.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 29 May 2012 07:54:45 -0600 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by d03dlp01.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7374EC40003 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 07:54:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q4TDsfK3038790 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 07:54:41 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q4TDsdPR002980 for ; Tue, 29 May 2012 07:54:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4FC4D51B.1000802@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 08:54:35 -0500 From: Seth Jennings MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [GIT] (frontswap.v16-tag) References: <20120518204211.GA18571@localhost.localdomain> <20120524202221.GA19856@phenom.dumpdata.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , chris.mason@oracle.com, matthew@wil.cx, ngupta@vflare.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com, JBeulich@novell.com, dan.magenheimer@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org Hi Linus, On 05/27/2012 05:29 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > wrote: >> >> I posted this while I was on vacation and just realized that I hadn't >> put in the usual "GIT PULL" subject. Sorry about that - so sending >> this in case this GIT PULL got lost in your 'not-git-pull-ignore-for-two-weeks' >> folder. Cheers! > > So that isn't actually the main reason I hadn't pulled, although being > emailed a few days before the merge window opened did mean that it was > fairly low down in my mailbox anyway.. > > No, the real reason is that for new features like this - features that > I don't really see myself using personally and that I'm not all that > personally excited about - I *really* want others to pipe up with > "yes, we're using this, and yes, we want this to be merged". > > It doesn't seem to be huge, which is great, but the deathly silence of > nobody speaking up and saying "yes please", makes me go "ok, I won't > pull if nobody speaks up for the feature". We (IBM LTC) are interested in this feature being included. We are using it to enable main memory compression via the zcache driver in the staging tree. A lot of development is happening on the zcache and zsmalloc drivers by Nitin, Minchan, and me. But it is all (mostly) in vain unless we can get frontswap. I posted some numbers here... https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/22/383 that demonstrate the benefit of zcache (another topic), but all that isn't even an option without frontswap. Frontswap is the swap-space complement to Cleancache which has already been accepted. Sorry for my late response, but we would be very interested in seeing this feature in mainline. Thanks, Seth Jennings IBM Linux Technology Center POWER Virtualization -- 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