From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: add shrinker
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:36:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011213648.GC27872@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161011231408.2728c93ad89acb517fc6c9f0@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:14:08PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> This patch implements shrinker for z3fold. This shrinker
> implementation does not free up any pages directly but it allows
> for a denser placement of compressed objects which results in
> less actual pages consumed and higher compression ratio therefore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
This seems to implement the shrinker API we removed a ~3 years ago
(commit a0b02131c5fc ("shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.")). Forward
porting and testing required, perhaps?
Cheers,
Dave.
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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: add shrinker
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:36:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011213648.GC27872@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161011231408.2728c93ad89acb517fc6c9f0@gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:14:08PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> This patch implements shrinker for z3fold. This shrinker
> implementation does not free up any pages directly but it allows
> for a denser placement of compressed objects which results in
> less actual pages consumed and higher compression ratio therefore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
This seems to implement the shrinker API we removed a ~3 years ago
(commit a0b02131c5fc ("shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.")). Forward
porting and testing required, perhaps?
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-11 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-11 21:14 [PATCH] z3fold: add shrinker Vitaly Wool
2016-10-11 21:14 ` Vitaly Wool
2016-10-11 21:36 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-10-11 21:36 ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-11 21:51 ` Vitaly Wool
2016-10-11 21:51 ` Vitaly Wool
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