On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Anderson Briglia <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Anderson,
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Anderson Briglia <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm back to old Compressed Cache working (now it's ramzswap). Well,
>>> I'd like to know if that chunks approach is still being used. I
>>> noticed that a new allocator was specially implemented for ramzswap
>>> but is it using chunks approach for compressed pages storage?
>>>
>>
>> xvMalloc allocator is completely different from "chunks" based approach
>> used in very early patches (which you worked on).
>
> Humm.. as I suspected. :)
> Maybe should I take a look that paper about TLSF? I read in project's
> site that xvMalloc is based in TLSF.
>
>>


Yes, xvMalloc is based on TLSF. You can find more about it here:

http://compcache.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/files/xvmalloc/xvMalloc.pdf
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/xvMalloc

Nitin
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