From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx179.postini.com [74.125.245.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B70626B0002 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:58:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:58:41 +0900 From: Minchan Kim Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Add Kconfig for enabling PTE method Message-ID: <20130204025841.GE2688@blaptop> References: <1359937421-19921-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1359943329.1590.0.camel@kernel.cn.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359943329.1590.0.camel@kernel.cn.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Simon Jeons Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Seth Jennings , Nitin Gupta , Dan Magenheimer , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:02:09PM -0600, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 09:23 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > Zsmalloc has two methods 1) copy-based and 2) pte based to access > > allocations that span two pages. > > You can see history why we supported two approach from [1]. > > > > But it was bad choice that adding hard coding to select architecture > > which want to use pte based method. This patch removed it and adds > > new Kconfig to select the approach. > > > > This patch is based on next-20130202. > > What's the meaning of 'zs' in zsmalloc? It's short for what? I'm not right person to answer but I guess it stands for compressed slab. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org