From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261177AbTD0SKK (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:10:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261294AbTD0SKJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:10:09 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:25279 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261177AbTD0SKJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 14:10:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 11:22:11 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: J?rn Engel Cc: rmoser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re: Swap Compression Message-ID: <20030427182211.GY8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , J?rn Engel , rmoser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200304251848410590.00DEC185@smtp.comcast.net> <20030426091747.GD23757@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200304261148590300.00CE9372@smtp.comcast.net> <20030426160920.GC21015@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200304262224040410.031419FD@smtp.comcast.net> <20030427090418.GB6961@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200304271324370750.01655617@smtp.comcast.net> <20030427175147.GA5174@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030427175147.GA5174@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 07:51:47PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > Segments are old, stupid and x86 only. What you want is a number of > pages, maybe just one at a time. Always compress chunks of the same > size and you don't have to guess the decompressed size. Well, not really, but x86's notion of segments differs substantially from that held by other cpus. -- wli