Re: Memory compression (again). . help?

["Asbjørn Sannes" <ace@sannes.org>]

John Richard Moser wrote:
> >>> I'm not quite sure what I'm doing or when I have time, but I'm looking
> >>> into writing in some hooks and a compression routine to manage
> >>> compressed memory.
<snip>
> I'm actually looking to submit to mainline in the end ;P  It'd be a very
> good permenant feature.  RAM is cheap, but CPU is even cheaper; if I buy
> a gig of RAM and get 200M free, woohoo?

Nitin Gupta and myself has already started working on a implementation
for 2.6, you are of course welcome to join our effort. Nitin has already
made some code available where you can clearly see where such things
could be done. I can recommend "Understanding the Linux kernel (3rd
Edition)" by Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati. Also, you could take a look
at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/ under recommended books.


Mvh,
Asbjørn Sannes

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