[KERNEL][SM-G360H/HU][V3.1] CORE� Kernel for Samsung Galaxy Core Prime

• Upgraded to latest mainstream Linux kernel (3.10.102)
• Governors: interactive, performance, powersave, intelliactive (still stock, will add later)
• IO schedulers: noop, deadline, row, cfq, bfq, vr, sio, zen, fifo, fiops
• SELinux Permissive
• F2FS support
• Multiple zRAM devices, prevent performance bottleneck
• OC'ed GPU clock speed (460 MHz) (like stock TouchWiz kernel)
• Better memory managements
• UKSM (Ultra Kernel Samepage Merging)
• zswap - compressed memory pool for swap file/zRAM
• Support all ROM versions (from stock to CM13)
• Experience yourself

• Download the flashable ZIP in post 2 below
• Copy to your SD card, make sure you don't forget the file path
• Now install and enjoy the kernel :good::good::good:

• Thanks to @psych.half for his mkbootimg idea

• Hopefully fixes the kernel crash issue due to IO schedulers
• OC'ed to 1,3GHz

• Playing video from gallery cause freeze. Use MX Player or any video player app to play offline videos

• Implemented vnswap from Sammy's grandprimeve3g stock source
• Allow to set zram disksize through build.prop

vnswap.enabled=true

zram.disksize=<disksize> (e.g zram.disksize=200)

zRam
- (Pros) It's one of the fastest swapping method available, since it dynamically compresses the RAM and do not use physical NAND storage for swapping.
- (Cons) It may unnecessarily reserve free memory even though swapping is not necessary. Let's say you use 0.9 GB out of 1 GB of RAM. After setting 500 MB of zRam, the 0.4 GB gets automatically compressed even though it may be not necessary. This will result in CPU cycle consumption, faster battery drain.

vnswap
- (Pros) It uses a standard swap method with a special block device. On our i9300, 512 MB of vnswap is automatically reserved in the NAND's free space. While zRam can swap on situations that may be not necessary, vnswap can swap in/out dynamically. This means light users that don't need swapping, vnswap can be (almost) inactive.
- (Pros) Since it helds 512 MB of vnswap that's compressed with zswap, you can expect up-to 1.7 GB ~ 2.0 GB of relocatable memory. This is larger than zRam, meaning more stuffs can fit in.
- (Mid) While swapping to NAND is slow and bad for NAND's life-time, vnswap uses the combination of zswap for compressed swap.
- (Cons) Although it uses zswap, swapping to NAND is still slow and bad for NAND's life-time compared to RAM-side swapping methods.
- (Cons) It doesn't discard the NAND for some reason, Samsung has disabled the discard on vnswap source code due to some userspace binaries segfaulting.

TL;DR : If you're a heavy user, need a lot of memory, zRam might be a better choice. If you're light-mid user, vnswap might be a better choice.

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