linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion

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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:32:13 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion

On Fri,  2 Nov 2012 16:12:44 +0900
Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patchset promotes zram/zsmalloc from staging.

The changelogs are distressingly short of *reasons* for doing this!

> Both are very clean and zram have been used by many embedded product
> for a long time.

Well that's interesting.

Which embedded products?  How are they using zram and what benefit are
they observing from it, in what scenarios?

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