Re: zsmalloc defrag (Was: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory)

[Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 01:37:47PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan@kernel.org]
> > Subject: Re: zsmalloc defrag (Was: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory)
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:27:19AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > Hi Dan,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:32:38AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > > > > From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan@kernel.org]
> > > > > Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 12:01 AM
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory
> > > >
> > > > (patch removed)
> > > >
> > > > > Fragment ratio is almost same but memory consumption and compile time
> > > > > is better. I am working to add defragment function of zsmalloc.
> > > >
> > > > Hi Minchan --
> > > >
> > > > I would be very interested in your design thoughts on
> > > > how you plan to add defragmentation for zsmalloc.  In
> > >
> > > What I can say now about is only just a word "Compaction".
> > > As you know, zsmalloc has a transparent handle so we can do whatever
> > > under user. Of course, there is a tradeoff between performance
> > > and memory efficiency. I'm biased to latter for embedded usecase.
> > >
> > > And I might post it because as you know well, zsmalloc
> > 
> > Incomplete sentense,
> > 
> > I might not post it until promoting zsmalloc because as you know well,
> > zsmalloc/zram's all new stuffs are blocked into staging tree.
> > Even if we could add it into staging, as you know well, staging is where
> > every mm guys ignore so we end up needing another round to promote it. sigh.
> > 
> > I hope it gets better after LSF/MM.
> 
> If zsmalloc is moving in the direction of supporting only zram,
> why should it be promoted into mm, or even lib?  Why not promote
> zram into drivers and put zsmalloc.c in the same directory?

I don't want to make zsmalloc zram specific and will do best effort
to generalize it to all z* familiy. If it is hard to reach out
agreement, yes, forking could be a easy solution like other embedded
product company but I don't want it.


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