linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] zram: Allocate struct zcomp

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 13:51:43 -0700
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] zram: Allocate struct zcomp_strm as per-CPU memory

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:11:18PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> zcomp::stream is a per-CPU pointer, pointing to struct zcomp_strm
> which contains two pointers. Having struct zcomp_strm allocated
> directly as per-CPU memory would avoid one additional memory
> allocation and a pointer dereference. This also simplifies the
> addition of a local_lock to struct zcomp_strm.
> 
> Allocate zcomp::stream directly as per-CPU memory.
> 
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>

Looks good to me.