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Message-ID: <20121031010642.GN15767@bbox>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:06:42 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion

Thanks all,

At last, everybody who contributes to zsmalloc want to put it under /lib.

Greg,
What should I do for promoting this dragging patchset?

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:56:46PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> This patchset promotes zram/zsmalloc from staging.
> Both are very clean and zram have been used by many embedded product
> for a long time.
> It's time to go out of staging.
> 
> Greg, Jens is already OK that zram is located under driver/blocks/.
> The issue remained is where we put zsmalloc.
> The candidate is two under mm/ or under lib/
> Konrad and Nitin wanted to put zsmalloc into lib/ instead of mm/.
> 
> Quote from Nitin
> "
> I think mm/ directory should only contain the code which is intended
> for global use such as the slab allocator, page reclaim code etc.
> zsmalloc is used by only one (or possibly two) drivers, so lib/ seems
> to be the right place.
> "
> 
> Quote from Konrand
> "
> I like the idea of keeping it in /lib or /mm. Actually 'lib' sounds more
> appropriate since it is dealing with storing a bunch of pages in a nice
> layout for great density purposes.
> "
> 
> In fact, there is some history about that.
> 
> Why I put zsmalloc into under mm firstly was that Andrew had a concern
> about using strut page's some fields freely in zsmalloc so he wanted
> to maintain it in mm/ if I remember correctly.
> 
> So I and Nitin tried to ask the opinion to akpm several times
> (at least 6 and even I sent such patch a few month ago) but didn't get
> any reply from him so I guess he doesn't have any concern about that
> any more.
> 
> In point of view that it's an another slab-like allocator,
> it might be proper under mm but it's not popular as current mm's
> allocators(/SLUB/SLOB and page allocator).
> 
> Frankly speaking, I don't care whether we put it to mm/ or lib/.
> It seems contributors(ex, Nitin and Konrad) like lib/ and Andrew is still
> silent. That's why I am biased into lib/ now.
> 
> If someone yell we should keep it to mm/ by logical claim, I can change
> my mind easily. Please raise your hand.
> 
> If Andrew doesn't have a concern about that any more, I would like to
> locate it into /lib.
> 
> This patchset is based on next-20121029
> 
> Minchan Kim (3):
>   zsmalloc: promote to lib/
>   zram: promote zram from staging
>   zram: select ZSMALLOC when ZRAM is configured
> 
>  drivers/block/Kconfig                    |    1 +
>  drivers/block/Makefile                   |    1 +
>  drivers/block/zram/Kconfig               |   26 +
>  drivers/block/zram/Makefile              |    3 +
>  drivers/block/zram/zram.txt              |   76 +++
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c            |  793 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h            |  119 ++++
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_sysfs.c          |  225 +++++++
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                  |    4 -
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                 |    1 -
>  drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c     |    4 +-
>  drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig             |   25 -
>  drivers/staging/zram/Makefile            |    3 -
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt            |   76 ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c          |  793 ----------------------
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h          |  120 ----
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c        |  225 -------
>  drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Kconfig         |   10 -
>  drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Makefile        |    3 -
>  drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c | 1064 ------------------------------
>  drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.h      |   43 --
>  include/linux/zsmalloc.h                 |   43 ++
>  lib/Kconfig                              |   18 +
>  lib/Makefile                             |    1 +
>  lib/zsmalloc.c                           | 1064 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  25 files changed, 2372 insertions(+), 2369 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zram.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/zram_sysfs.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/zram.txt
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Kconfig
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc-main.c
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zsmalloc/zsmalloc.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/zsmalloc.h
>  create mode 100644 lib/zsmalloc.c
> 
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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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