Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5

Christoph Lameter
2009-04-02T02:14:38Z

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> Justification for this custom allocator is present in xvmalloc changelog
> itself. It gives reason for not using SLUB and SLOB. During review
> cycle, I never got any arguments against that justification.

The use of highmem is pretty unique. But that restrict the usefulness to
32 bit processors with too much RAM.