Re: Frontswap [PATCH 0/4] (was Transcendent Memory): overview

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Stop right here. Instead of improving existing swap api, you just
> > create one because it is less work.
> > 
> > We do not want apis to cummulate; please just fix the existing one.
> 
> > If we added all the apis that worked when proposed, we'd have
> > unmaintanable mess by about 1996.
> > 
> > Why can't frontswap just use existing swap api?
> 
> Hi Pavel!
> 
> The existing swap API as it stands is inadequate for an efficient
> synchronous interface (e.g. for swapping to RAM).  Both Nitin
> and I independently have found this to be true.  But swap-to-RAM

So... how much slower is swapping to RAM over current interface when
compared to proposed interface, and how much is that slower than just
using the memory directly?
								Pavel
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