zswap" is discussed, with some initial performance data provided to demonstrate the potential benefits for a system (partition or guest) which has constrained memory and is beginning to swap memory pages to disk. The technique improves the throughput of a system, while significantly reducing the disk I/O activity normally associated with page swapping. We also explore how zswap works in conjunction with the new compression accelerator feature of the POWER7+ processor to potentially improve the system throughput even more than... [More]

Tags:  memory performance lkml zswap compression powerlinux power7+ future