From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Adding compression before/above swapcache
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:32:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <533587FD.7000006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALZtONDBNzL_S+UUxKgvNjEYu49eM5Fc2yJ37dJ8E+PEK+C7qg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/28/2014 08:36 AM, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Well my general idea was to modify shrink_page_list() so that instead
> of calling add_to_swap() and then pageout(), anonymous pages would be
> added to a compressed cache. I haven't worked out all the specific
> details, but I am initially thinking that the compressed cache could
> simply repurpose incoming pages to use as the compressed cache storage
> (using its own page mapping, similar to swap page mapping), and then
> add_to_swap() the storage pages when the compressed cache gets to a
> certain size. Pages that don't compress well could just bypass the
> compressed cache, and get sent the current route directly to
> add_to_swap().
That sounds a lot like what zswap does. How is your
proposal different?
And, is there an easier way to implement that difference? :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-28 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-26 20:28 Adding compression before/above swapcache Dan Streetman
2014-03-27 22:26 ` Seth Jennings
2014-03-28 12:36 ` Dan Streetman
2014-03-28 14:32 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-03-28 14:47 ` Dan Streetman
2014-03-31 12:43 ` Bob Liu
2014-03-31 15:35 ` Dan Streetman
2014-04-08 10:21 ` Bob Liu
2014-03-31 4:56 ` Minchan Kim
2014-03-31 15:20 ` Dan Streetman
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