From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261617AbTD2TxT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:53:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261618AbTD2TxT (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:53:19 -0400 Received: from watch.techsource.com ([209.208.48.130]:46556 "EHLO techsource.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261617AbTD2TxS (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:53:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAEDB7C.9080101@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:07:24 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Swap Compression Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: >On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:35, Timothy Miller wrote: > > >> >> >The work that Rodrigo De Castro did on compressed caching >(linuxcompressed.sf.net) included a minilzo algorithm which I used by default >in the -ck patch addon as it performed the best for all the reasons you >mention. Why not look at that lzo code for adoption. > > > Some time before rmoser started HIS discussion on compressed swap, I started a discussion on the same topic. Out of that discussion came mention of an existing project which did EXACTLY what I was proposing. That made me happy. For some reason rmoser wants to start from scratch. He can do that if he wants. I had only hoped that my earlier mention of it would spark interest in taking the existing implementation and adding it to the mainline kernel, after some incompatbilities were dealt with. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to engage directly in that particular aspect the kernel development. > >