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Message-ID: <20130204025841.GE2688@blaptop> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:58:41 +0900 From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> To: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@...il.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Add Kconfig for enabling PTE method On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:02:09PM -0600, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 09:23 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > Zsmalloc has two methods 1) copy-based and 2) pte based to access > > allocations that span two pages. > > You can see history why we supported two approach from [1]. > > > > But it was bad choice that adding hard coding to select architecture > > which want to use pte based method. This patch removed it and adds > > new Kconfig to select the approach. > > > > This patch is based on next-20130202. > > What's the meaning of 'zs' in zsmalloc? It's short for what? I'm not right person to answer but I guess it stands for compressed slab. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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