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Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:07:31 -0600
From:	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	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>,
	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: [PATCHv4 3/7] zswap: add to mm/

* Seth Jennings (sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> On 01/31/2013 01:07 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:40:23PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> >> zswap is a thin compression backend for frontswap. It receives
> >> pages from frontswap and attempts to store them in a compressed
> >> memory pool, resulting in an effective partial memory reclaim and
> >> dramatically reduced swap device I/O.
> >>
> >> Additionally, in most cases, pages can be retrieved from this
> >> compressed store much more quickly than reading from tradition
> >> swap devices resulting in faster performance for many workloads.
> >>
> >> This patch adds the zswap driver to mm/
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  mm/Kconfig  |  15 ++
> >>  mm/Makefile |   1 +
> >>  mm/zswap.c  | 656 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  3 files changed, 672 insertions(+)
> >>  create mode 100644 mm/zswap.c
> >>
> >> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> >> index 278e3ab..14b9acb 100644
> >> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> >> @@ -446,3 +446,18 @@ config FRONTSWAP
> >>  	  and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device.
> >>  
> >>  	  If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
> >> +
> >> +config ZSWAP
> >> +	bool "In-kernel swap page compression"
> >> +	depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO
> >> +	select CRYPTO_LZO
> >> +	select ZSMALLOC
> > 
> > Again, I'm asking why zswap should have a dependent on CRPYTO?
> > Couldn't we support it as a option? I'd like to use zswap without CRYPTO
> > like zram.
> 
> The reason we need CRYPTO is that zswap uses it to support a pluggable
> compression model.  zswap can use any compressor that has a crypto API
> driver.  zswap has _symbol dependencies_ on CRYPTO.  If it isn't
> selected, the build breaks.

And we went with a pluggable model so that we could support hardware
accelerated compression engines like:

0e16aaf powerpc/crypto: add 842 hardware compression driver

--Rob Jennings

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