linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

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Message-ID: <CAOJsxLEHDAj2R13riRY6TkR3sk9=o3mRigT4dQes0FZOcO2KLw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:22:45 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.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>, gaowanlong@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator
> from the staging tree to lib/
>
> zcache/zram depends on this allocator for storing compressed RAM pages
> in an efficient way under system wide memory pressure where
> high-order (greater than 0) page allocation are very likely to
> fail.
>
> For more information on zsmalloc and its internals, read the
> documentation at the top of the zsmalloc.c file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
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