linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: zsmalloc: various cleanups/improvments

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:44:06 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: zsmalloc: various cleanups/improvments

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:07:10AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 09:47 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Hi Seth,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:46:14AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> >> These patches are the first 4 patches of the zswap patchset I
> >> sent out previously.  Some recent commits to zsmalloc and
> >> zcache in staging-next forced a rebase. While I was at it, Nitin
> >> (zsmalloc maintainer) requested I break these 4 patches out from
> >> the zswap patchset, since they stand on their own.
> > 
> > [2/4] and [4/4] is okay to merge current zsmalloc in staging but
> > [1/4] and [3/4] is dependent on zswap so it should be part of
> > zswap patchset.
> 
> Just to clarify, patches 1 and 3 are _not_ dependent on zswap.  They
> just introduce changes that are only needed by zswap.

I don't think so. If zswap might be not merged, we don't need [1, 3]
at the moment. You could argue that [1, 3] make zsmalloc more flexible
and I agree. BUT I want it when we have needs. It would be not too late.
So [1,3] should be part of zswap patchset.

> 
> Seth
> 
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Minchan Kim
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