From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754080Ab1KFWfT (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:35:19 -0500 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:42881 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581Ab1KFWfR (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:35:17 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: John Stoffel Cc: Dan Magenheimer , Johannes Weiner , Pekka Enberg , Cyclonus J , Sasha Levin , Christoph Hellwig , David Rientjes , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , Konrad Wilk , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Seth Jennings , ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason , JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen , Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT." <20139.5644.583790.903531@quad.stoffel.home> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <75efb251-7a5e-4aca-91e2-f85627090363@default> <20111027215243.GA31644@infradead.org> <1319785956.3235.7.camel@lappy> <552d2067-474d-4aef-a9a4-89e5fd8ef84f@default> <20111028163053.GC1319@redhat.com> <3982e04f-8607-4f0a-b855-2e7f31aaa6f7@default> <20139.5644.583790.903531@quad.stoffel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:32:54 -0500 Message-ID: <201529.1320618774@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=vivi.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020206.4EB70B22.006B,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said: > Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to > Dan> add RAM to your systems. > > So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM? You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :) There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a forklift upgrade to a new machine. > if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more > memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more > performance out of this expensive hardware. It's not always a large system.... --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFOtwsWcC3lWbTT17ARAlvfAKCoKX68t1pDd8M1xDoZuSpVYUljjACfRYID 7BmJgF1WCyqaQVF50mbeXUg= =pNIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1320618774_135101P--