From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7][v2] zram/xvmalloc: 64K page fixes and optimizations
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:47:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1296290831.30654.4.camel@jaguar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110128145602.GA2062@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 08:56 -0600, Robert Jennings wrote:
> Based on feedback this is version 2 of my patches to fix zram and the
> xvmalloc allocator for 64K page size kernels along with a few small
> zram optimizations.
>
> I have dropped the patch to mark the device as non-rotational media as
> this was duplicated elsewhere. I also dropped the patch regarding caching
> the indices for page size allocations because gcc is quite smart.
>
> There are two new patches at the end of this patch set. The first
> changes zram to return zero'd pages for reads of pages which have not
> been written to, this eliminates passing uninitialized pages back
> to user-space. The second new patch cleans up freelist pointer
> management and combines the two delete node functions into one common
> function.
>
> The xvmalloc allocator is non-functional when running with a 64K page
> size. The first two patches fix 64K page related issues.
> [1/7] [v2] zram/vmalloc: Correct tunings to enable use with 64K pages
> [2/7] [v2] zram: Prevent overflow in logical block size
>
> The next 3 patches provide some small optimizations for zram and
> xvmalloc.
> [3/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: free bit block insertion optimization
> [4/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: create CONFIG_ZRAM_DEBUG for debug code
> [5/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: Close 32byte hole on 64bit CPUs
>
> These last 2 patches are new, see the description above.
> [6/7] zram: Return zero'd pages on new reads
> [7/7] zram/xvmalloc: combine duplicate block delete code
>
> Thanks for the helpful reviews.
Hey, you dropped Nitin's and my Reviewed-by tags! Please don't do that
in the future.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-29 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-28 14:56 [PATCH 0/7][v2] zram/xvmalloc: 64K page fixes and optimizations Robert Jennings
2011-01-28 14:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] [v2] zram/vmalloc: Correct tunings to enable use with 64K pages Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:47 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/7] [v2] zram: Prevent overflow in logical block size Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: free bit block insertion optimization Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 14:59 ` [PATCH 4/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: create CONFIG_ZRAM_DEBUG for debug code Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:48 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 15:00 ` [PATCH 5/7] [v2] zram/xvmalloc: Close 32byte hole on 64bit CPUs Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 15:00 ` [PATCH 6/7] zram: Return zero'd pages on new reads Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-28 15:01 ` [PATCH 7/7] zram/xvmalloc: combine duplicate block delete code Robert Jennings
2011-01-29 8:50 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-01-31 13:31 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-01-29 8:47 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-01-29 18:54 ` [PATCH 0/7][v2] zram/xvmalloc: 64K page fixes and optimizations Robert Jennings
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