From: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:30:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5153C76E.3050203@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef105888-1996-4c78-829a-36b84973ce65@default>
On 03/28/2013 04:04 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Seth and all zproject folks --
>
> I've been giving some deep thought as to how a zpage
> allocator might be designed that would incorporate the
> best of both zsmalloc and zbud.
>
> Rather than dive into coding, it occurs to me that the
> best chance of success would be if all interested parties
> could first discuss (on-list) and converge on a design
> that we can all agree on. If we achieve that, I don't
> care who writes the code and/or gets the credit or
> chooses the name. If we can't achieve consensus, at
> least it will be much clearer where our differences lie.
>
> Any thoughts?
Can't agree more!
Hoping we would agree on a design dealing well with
density/fragmentation/pageframe-reclaim and better integration with MM.
And then working together to implement it.
--
Regards,
-Bob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-28 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 20:04 zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion? Dan Magenheimer
2013-03-28 4:30 ` Bob Liu [this message]
2013-04-11 19:35 ` Seth Jennings
2013-04-11 20:10 ` Seth Jennings
2013-04-11 23:28 ` Dan Magenheimer
2013-04-12 20:15 ` Seth Jennings
2013-04-12 20:48 ` Dan Magenheimer
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