Re: [PATCH 0/8] zcache: page cache compression support

Greg KH
2010-07-22T19:15:35Z

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 06:07:42PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Frequently accessed filesystem data is stored in memory to reduce access to
> (much) slower backing disks. Under memory pressure, these pages are freed and
> when needed again, they have to be read from disks again. When combined working
> set of all running application exceeds amount of physical RAM, we get extereme
> slowdown as reading a page from disk can take time in order of milliseconds.

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Given that there were a lot of comments and changes for this series, can
you resend them with your updates so I can then apply them if they are
acceptable to everyone?

thanks,

greg k-h