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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:49:28 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com> To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction On (07/08/15 12:04), Minchan Kim wrote: > Hi Sergey, > Hi Minchan, [..] > > (a) we need something to signify that zs_unregister_shrinker() was successful > > I think a) is simple way to handle it now. > I don't want to stuck with this issue. > > Please comment out why we need such boolean so after someone who has interest > on shrinker clean-up is able to grab a chance. OK, sure. Do you think that (c) deserves a separate discussion (I can fork a new discussion thread and Cc more people). It does look like we can do a bit better and make shrinker less fragile (and probably cleanup/fix several places in the kernel). -ss -- 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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