linux-ext4 - Re: ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19]

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Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 22:07:27 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        minchan@...nel.org, ngupta@...are.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        avromanov@...rdevices.ru, ddrokosov@...rdevices.ru,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: ext2/zram issue [was: Linux 5.19]

On (22/08/09 21:57), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> This somehow makes me scratch my head and ask if we really want to
> continue using per-CPU steams. We previously (many years ago) had
> a list of idle compression streams, which would do compression in
> preemptible context and we would have only one zs_malloc handle
> allocation path, which would do direct reclaim (when needed)

Scratch that, I take it back. Sorry for the noise.