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Bug#573912: linux-2.6: please enable ramzswap/compcache



On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 02:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 18:03 +0200, Alberto wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 at 18:13:55 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > >>  Is the notify patch included on this module backport? It helps a lot
> > >>  to free compressed RAM not used anymore. Acording to the description,
> > 
> > >This does not appear to have been accepted upstream yet.  If it has,
> > >please provide a reference (commit hash and repository URL).
> > 
> > 
> > It seems that some patches have been accepted for 2.6.35:
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-mm-cc@lists.laptop.org/msg00182.html
> > 
> > I don't have the skills to evaluate if backporting this feature
> > would be feassible, or too intrusive.
> 
> This looks possible to backport, but it will involve an ABI bump (hence
> a change of binary package names) so I won't apply the changes straight
> away.

"Alberto" gave a fake email address, so I won't put any more work into
this until a real person requests it (with a separate bug report, as
this one is now closed).

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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