Re: [RFC] transcendent memory for Linux

2009-06-28 Thread Avi Kivity
On 06/27/2009 04:18 PM, Linus Walleij wrote: 2009/6/20 Dan Magenheimer: We call this latter class "transcendent memory" and it provides an interesting opportunity to more efficiently utilize RAM in a virtualized environment. However this "memory but not really memory" may also have applica

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-28 Thread Pavel Machek
> >> > Ah now the write protection is a "needed feature", in your previous > >> > comment you talked about why not use ext2/3... > >> > > >> > Marco > >> > > >> > >> Just for your information I tried the same test with pc in a virtual > >> machine with 32MB of RAM: > >> > >> Version 1.03e    

Re: Status of bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for ARM?

2009-06-28 Thread Alain Knaff
Attached is a version of the ARM patch for 2.6.30 There seems to be some issues with the include files (which did not pose any problems in 2.6.28...), but hopefully somebody more experienced with the ARM architecture (and with its recent development) than I can help out there. Regards, Alain di

Re: Status of bzip2 and lzma kernel compression for ARM?

2009-06-28 Thread Alain Knaff
Alain Knaff wrote: > Attached is a version of the ARM patch for 2.6.30 > > There seems to be some issues with the include files (which did not pose > any problems in 2.6.28...), but hopefully somebody more experienced with > the ARM architecture (and with its recent development) than I can help >

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-28 Thread Marco Stornelli
Pavel Machek wrote: > Ah now the write protection is a "needed feature", in your previous > comment you talked about why not use ext2/3... > > Marco > Just for your information I tried the same test with pc in a virtual machine with 32MB of RAM: Version

Re: [PATCH 00/14] Pramfs: Persistent and protected ram filesystem

2009-06-28 Thread Marco Stornelli
Pavel Machek wrote: > Ah now the write protection is a "needed feature", in your previous > comment you talked about why not use ext2/3... > > Marco > Just for your information I tried the same test with pc in a virtual machine with 32MB of RAM: Version