By: Jenifer Hopper, working closely with zswap developer: Seth Jennings Updates:  Results for the new POWER7+ compression accelerator are provided inline A related article by Seth available on LWN.net:   The zswap compressed swap cache   With a short article here, we introduce some good work going on in the Linux community for memory compression techniques on a Linux system. A new proposed framework called " zswap " is discussed, with some initial performance data provided to demonstrate the potential benefits for a system... [More]

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