From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755229Ab1J0WeN (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:34:13 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:60540 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755077Ab1J0WeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:34:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4EA9DC53.8020907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:33:55 -0500 From: Brian King User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Magenheimer CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Konrad Wilk , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Seth Jennings , ngupta@vflare.org, levinsasha928@gmail.com, Chris Mason , JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen , Jonathan Corbet , Neo Jia Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11102722-3534-0000-0000-000000F93F25 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/27/2011 01:52 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Hi Linus -- > > Frontswap now has FOUR users: Two already merged in-tree (zcache > and Xen) and two still in development but in public git trees > (RAMster and KVM). Frontswap is part 2 of 2 of the core kernel > changes required to support transcendent memory; part 1 was cleancache > which you merged at 3.0 (and which now has FIVE users). We are also actively looking at utilizing frontswap for IBM Power and would welcome its inclusion in mainline. Thanks, Brian -- Brian King Linux on Power Virtualization IBM Linux Technology Center