From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx156.postini.com [74.125.245.156]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBF3F6B0005 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:30:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5153C76E.3050203@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:30:38 +0800 From: Bob Liu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Seth Jennings , Konrad Wilk , Minchan Kim , Robert Jennings , Nitin Gupta , Wanpeng Li , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- 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