[lc-devel] Compressed Caching on 2.6

[Nitin G. <nit...@gm...>]

Hi Allan and Briglia,

>
> Hi All,
>
> Firts, Congratulations Gupta!! Very good news!
Thanks! :)
>
> About CC, I and Briglia (and...@gm... 
> <mailto:and...@gm...>) are making some tests with 
> Rodrigo Castro version (kernel 2.4) for ARM platform. We are studying 
> a possible port for 2.6 and would like to cooperate with project.
>

Great!

My exams (and other misc things) just ended today...now I can really 
jump for compressed caching :)
Are you doing ccaching for "general" desktop systems or some kind of 
embedded device?

Just in case you didn't notice it earlier -- I have made a page 
linux-mm.org/CompressedCaching giving all the details collected by now 
for ccaching implementation on 2.6.x kernels (CompressedCaching/Code has 
the bare bones implementation created by now). Also, this is where I'll 
keep track of the project.

I intend to now focus on ccaching w.r.t OLPC systems. Thus, I'll now 
work on handling anon pages first instead of page cache pages.

The biggest thing is compression storage structure -- heart of all this 
work. I've actually received 0 feedback on this by now. Since that 
involves my semi-random guess work too, it really needs your help :)   
All other work revolves around this thing. In particular please see 
'Problems' listed at end of that page.

PS: I've 0 idea of ARM systems!


Best Regards,
Nitin Gupta