Re: [PATCH 0/3] compressed in-memory swapping take5

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 22:14:38 EST


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:

> Justification for this custom allocator is present in xvmalloc changelog
> itself. It gives reason for not using SLUB and SLOB. During review
> cycle, I never got any arguments against that justification.

The use of highmem is pretty unique. But that restrict the usefulness to
32 bit processors with too much RAM.

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