On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Tibor Bamhor <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for information > This PKGBUILD (for arch linux) covers only compilation of modules - no > recompilation of kernel(too complicated). So it seems that it will not help > in this situation. > > Yet another questions, what exactly means that compcache will be in kernel > (from 2.6.33)? Will vanila kernel provide everything? Including modules that > are now compiled from sources downloaded from homepage?
Vanilla kernel (2.6.33) contains all ramzswap code except a small portion of code which allows ramzswap to eliminate any stale data in memory. Without this small piece of code, ramzswap can actually degrade system performance since stale data can quickly accumulate in memory, defeating the whole purpose of compressed caching. This small bit of code has now been accepted into '-mm tree', but not sure when it will be integrated in mainline Linux kernel. Since bulk of code is already in mainline, future release will simply be patches against this existing in-kernel code that implement functionality (or fixes) which are not yet included in mainline. Eventually, when all these bits enter mainline, there will be not separate release from project page. > For arch linux we > currently have an init script, will it still be needed? > Not sure what this script does. Thanks, Nitin _______________________________________________ linux-mm-cc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/linux-mm-cc
