ZRAM Might Finally Be Moved Out Of Linux Staging

Posted by Ridcully on Aug 15, 2013 9:06 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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The zRAM Linux kernel module that aims to increase Linux's performance by avoiding paging to disk and optimizing to use a compressed block device in RAM, may finally leave the Linux kernel staging area and be promoted to main. This code that mostly benefits users with limited amounts of system RAM has become quite mature and is becoming widely adopted, which in part is why it's trying to be promoted out of the staging area.

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