Re: Re: Swap Compression

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 13:22:11 EST


On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 07:51:47PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> Segments are old, stupid and x86 only. What you want is a number of
> pages, maybe just one at a time. Always compress chunks of the same
> size and you don't have to guess the decompressed size.

Well, not really, but x86's notion of segments differs substantially
from that held by other cpus.

-- wli
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