From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:16:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121031021618.GA1142@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121031020443.GP15767@bbox>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:06:42AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > Thanks all,
> > >
> > > At last, everybody who contributes to zsmalloc want to put it under /lib.
> > >
> > > Greg,
> > > What should I do for promoting this dragging patchset?
> >
> > You need to get the -mm developers to agree that this is something that
> > is worth accepting. I have yet to see any compeling argument why this
>
> I'm one of mm developers. :)
> Yes. I hope Andrew have a time to take a look.
>
> > even needs to be in the kernel in the first place.
>
> Confused. what do you mean "this"? "zsmalloc" or "zram" or "both"?
> If you mean "zsmalloc", I guess there were some lengthy thread about
> "why we need a new another allocator". Unfortunately, I didn't follow it
> at that time. Nitin, Pekka, Could you point out that thread? or summarize
> the result.
>
> >
> > I'm not moving this anywhere until you get their acceptance.
>
> I understand you.
>
> It's one of problem in current mm mailing list.
> As you know, many mm guys works for server, not embedded so they don't have
> big interest about embedded feature so prioirty of the feature was always
> low. CMA proved it and next turn is zram. Even new-comer in mm is few so
> review bandwidth is always low, too. :(
>
> How can I poke them?
You just did. If they ignore this, wait a week, and resend.
Persistance is key.
good luck,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-29 8:56 [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] zsmalloc: promote to lib/ Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] zram: promote zram from staging Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 8:56 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] zram: select ZSMALLOC when ZRAM is configured Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 15:43 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion Seth Jennings
2012-10-31 1:06 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 1:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-31 2:04 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 2:16 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-10-31 2:39 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 2:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-31 7:02 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 16:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-11-01 2:45 ` Minchan Kim
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2012-10-29 15:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
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