[$] The [vx]swap showdown

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by LWN.net at 08 Oct, 13:43 UTC

The kernel's swap layer has undergone some significant changes over the course of the last year and a number of longstanding problems have been addressed. One problem that has not yet been solved in the mainline is the direct tie between slots in the swap cache and space in persistent swap files…