linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] zram: don't retry compress incompressible page

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Message-ID: <CA+_sPao6mN5hwFEanGuAM6YeM+RYiKbortwNech3-cLfMsGuDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:48:39 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexey Romanov <avromanov@...rdevices.ru>, ngupta@...are.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, axboe@...omium.org,
        kernel@...rdevices.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mnitenko@...il.com, Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@...rdevices.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] zram: don't retry compress incompressible page

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 5:27 AM Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
[..]
> The 2nd trial allocation under per-cpu pressmption has been used to
> prevent regression of allocation failure. However, it makes trouble
> for maintenance without significant benefit.

Agreed.

> I'd like to remove the double compression logic and make it simple.
> What do you think?

I'm all for it.