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KS2012: memcg/mm: Moving zcache towards the mainline

KS2012: memcg/mm: Moving zcache towards the mainline

Posted Sep 20, 2012 3:59 UTC (Thu) by nwatkins (subscriber, #61119)
Parent article: KS2012: memcg/mm: Moving zcache towards the mainline

I'm curious about the policy by which zcache chooses the pages to be compressed, or if the choice is largely random?


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KS2012: memcg/mm: Moving zcache towards the mainline

Posted Sep 20, 2012 16:11 UTC (Thu) by djm1021 (subscriber, #31130) [Link]

Definitely not random. See Transcendent Memory in a Nutshell http://lwn.net/Articles/454795/ especially section 3.

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