linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] zram: make deduplication feature optional

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:11:05 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] zram: make deduplication feature optional

On (03/23/17 12:05), Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:00:59AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:46:38AM +0900, js1304@...il.com wrote:
> > > From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
> > > 
> > > Benefit of deduplication is dependent on the workload so it's not
> > > preferable to always enable. Therefore, make it optional.
> > 
> > Please make it to Kconfig, too. And write down the description to impress
> > "help a lot for users who uses zram to build output directory"
> > And the feature should be disabled as default.
> 
> Okay.

so I was thinking for a moment -- do we want to keep this
functionality in zram or may be it belongs to allocator (zsmalloc)?
what do you think? just a question.

	-ss