linux-kernel - Re: zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion?

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Message-ID: <5153C76E.3050203@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:30:38 +0800
From:	Bob Liu <bob.liu@...cle.com>
To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
CC:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Robert Jennings <rcj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion?


On 03/28/2013 04:04 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Seth and all zproject folks --
> 
> I've been giving some deep thought as to how a zpage
> allocator might be designed that would incorporate the
> best of both zsmalloc and zbud.
> 
> Rather than dive into coding, it occurs to me that the
> best chance of success would be if all interested parties
> could first discuss (on-list) and converge on a design
> that we can all agree on.  If we achieve that, I don't
> care who writes the code and/or gets the credit or
> chooses the name.  If we can't achieve consensus, at
> least it will be much clearer where our differences lie.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Can't agree more!
Hoping we would agree on a design dealing well with
density/fragmentation/pageframe-reclaim and better integration with MM.
And then working together to implement it.

-- 
Regards,
-Bob
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