linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:56:03 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jenifer Hopper <jhopper@...ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:49:23PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator
> from the staging tree to lib/
> 
> zswap 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: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

At least, maintainer should notice about known bug of zsmalloc.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=135933481517809&w=3

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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