From: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>,
Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:12:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <520DED04.2030605@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130816083347.GD2296@suse.de>
Hi Mel,
On 08/16/2013 04:33 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> I already said I recognise it has a large number of users in the field
> and users count a lot more than me complaining. If it gets promoted then
> I expect it will be on those grounds.
>
> My position is that I think it's a bad idea because it is clear there is no
> plan or intention of ever brining zram and zswap together. Instead we are
> to have two features providing similar functionality with zram diverging
> further from zswap. Ultimately I believe this will increase maintenance
> headaches. It'll get even more entertaining if/when someone ever tries
> to reimplement zcache although since Dan left I do not believe anyone is
> planning to try. I will not be acking this series but there many be enough
I already reimplemented zcache based on mm/zbud.c.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/104824
I'll pay more attention to the problems of zswap as you mentioned.
> developers that are actually willing to maintain a duel zram/zswap mess
> to make it happen anyway.
>
--
Regards,
-Bob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-16 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 5:55 [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] zsmalloc: add Kconfig for enabling page table method Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] zsmalloc: add more comment Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] zsmalloc: move it under zram Minchan Kim
2013-08-16 22:00 ` Seth Jennings
2013-08-20 4:21 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] mm: export unmap_kernel_range Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] zram: promote zram from staging Minchan Kim
2013-08-14 15:53 ` [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-14 16:17 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 0:18 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-15 15:03 ` Seth Jennings
2013-08-16 2:02 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-16 2:02 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <520d883a.a2f6420a.6f36.0d66SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-16 4:35 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-16 7:02 ` Alex Elsayed
2013-08-14 17:40 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-14 18:15 ` Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-14 18:58 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-15 17:12 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16 1:52 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16 1:53 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16 4:26 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-16 4:55 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16 8:33 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16 9:12 ` Mel Gorman
2013-08-16 9:18 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-16 12:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-16 9:12 ` Bob Liu [this message]
2013-08-19 3:18 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-19 3:57 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-19 4:37 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-19 5:29 ` Luigi Semenzato
2013-08-19 6:07 ` Bob Liu
2013-08-19 6:11 ` Minchan Kim
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2013-08-14 5:51 Minchan Kim
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