Nitin, thanks for your answer. So bottom line is that 2.6.33 kernel will not be usable (for compcache) without patching. This can be problem for some linux distributions, I mean to get your patches to official distribution kernel. Anyway I understand why it is.
In regard to the init script, in arch linux we have init script like: /etc/rc.d/compcache start|stop|status that basically uses your un/use_compcache.sh scripts, just to be somehow "standardized", like other "services" of system. So necessity of such init script depends on a way how compcache is intended to be started in future... But I dont think this question needs attention now. Thats all from me, thank for you attention Tibor On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:12:16 +0100, Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
