linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] zswap: only save zswap header when necessary

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:04:59 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc:     Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] zswap: only save zswap header when necessary

On (01/10/18 14:56), Yu Zhao wrote:
[..]
> We waste sizeof(swp_entry_t) for zswap header when using zsmalloc
> as zpool driver because zsmalloc doesn't support eviction.
>
> Add zpool_evictable() to detect if zpool is potentially evictable,
> and use it in zswap to avoid waste memory for zswap header.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>

looks good to me.

FWIW,
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>

	-ss