linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: zsmalloc: memory allocator for compressed pages

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:09:44 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: zsmalloc: memory allocator for compressed
 pages

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:51:55PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> This patchset introduces a new memory allocation library named
> zsmalloc.  zsmalloc was designed to fulfill the needs
> of users where:
>  1) Memory is constrained, preventing contiguous page allocations
>     larger than order 0 and
>  2) Allocations are all/commonly greater than half a page.

As this is submitted during the merge window, I don't have any time to
look at it until after 3.3-rc1 is out.

I'll queue it up for then.

thanks,

greg k-h
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