From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx132.postini.com [74.125.245.132]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AE5F6B004D for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:28:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e39.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:28:47 -0700 Received: from d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (d01relay05.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.237]) by d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3E33E40059 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:28:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay05.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q0NERMT1197016 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:27:22 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q0NERI64011083 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:27:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4F1D6E44.6070509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:16 -0600 From: Seth Jennings MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: zsmalloc: memory allocator for compressed pages References: <1326149520-31720-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120120140344.2fb399e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120120140344.2fb399e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Magenheimer , Brian King , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Wilk , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey Andrew, Thanks for the feedback. On 01/20/2012 04:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:51:55 -0600 > Seth Jennings wrote: > > The changelog doesn't really describe why the code was written and > provides no reason for anyone to merge it. This is the most important > part of the patch description and you completely omitted it! Sorry about that. The purpose is to replace the xvmalloc allocator that both zcache and zram use that suffers from the high fragmentation described. I 'll be sure to add this to the cover letter. I was thinking it would go to lib after staging. Thanks, -- Seth -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org