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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:42:39PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> "I didn't really follow the discussion at Kernel Summit, but there seemed
> to be some question as to whether the cleancache stuff will be merged or
> not.  It missed 2.6.37 (obviously), but my question now is do I keep in
> in linux-next in the hope that it will be merged in 2.6.38?  Or is that
> not going to happen?"

The real problem is I don't think anyone is really paying attention to
cleancache.

Dan, something that might be useful to drive interest would be a
demonstration of this improves performance on, say, a netbook using
cleancache and zram, and how it is better than just using zram
directly as a swap device.  With maybe some numbers?  That might get
some interest from the community desktop distributions...

     	      	       		 	 - Ted