linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] zram/zsmalloc promotion

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Message-ID: <5029E3EF.9080301@vflare.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:36:47 -0700
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] zram/zsmalloc promotion

On 08/13/2012 07:35 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:12:13PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
>> This patchset promotes zram/zsmalloc from staging.
>> Both are very clean and zram is used by many embedded product
>> for a long time.
>>
>> [1-3] are patches not merged into linux-next yet but needed
>> it as base for [4-5] which promotes zsmalloc.
>> Greg, if you merged [1-3] already, skip them.
> 
> I've applied 1-3 and now 4, but that's it, I can't apply the rest
> without getting acks from the -mm maintainers, sorry.  Please work with
> them to get those acks, and then I will be glad to apply the rest (after
> you resend them of course...)
>

On a second thought, I think zsmalloc should stay in drivers/block/zram
since zram is now the only user of zsmalloc since zcache and ramster are
moving to another allocator. Secondly, zsmalloc does not provide
standard slab like interface, so should not be part of mm/. At the best,
it could be moved to lib/ with header in include/linux just like genalloc.

Thanks,
Nitin

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