From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx136.postini.com [74.125.245.136]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B37D06B0032 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <52119FC7.5070406@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:32:07 +0800 From: Bob Liu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm: merge zram into zswap References: <1376815249-6611-1-git-send-email-bob.liu@oracle.com> <20130819041044.GB26832@bbox> In-Reply-To: <20130819041044.GB26832@bbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Minchan Kim Cc: Bob Liu , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eternaleye@gmail.com, mgorman@suse.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, axboe@kernel.dk, sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ngupta@vflare.org, semenzato@google.com, penberg@iki.fi, sonnyrao@google.com, smbarber@google.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, riel@redhat.com, kmpark@infradead.org Hi Minchan, On 08/19/2013 12:10 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:40:45PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: >> Both zswap and zram are used to compress anon pages in memory so as to reduce >> swap io operation. The main different is that zswap uses zbud as its allocator >> while zram uses zsmalloc. The other different is zram will create a block >> device, the user need to mkswp and swapon it. >> >> Minchan has areadly try to promote zram/zsmalloc into drivers/block/, but it may >> cause increase maintenance headaches. Since the purpose of zswap and zram are >> the same, this patch series try to merge them together as Mel suggested. >> Dropped zram from staging and extended zswap with the same feature as zram. >> >> zswap todo: >> Improve the writeback of zswap pool pages! >> >> Bob Liu (4): >> drivers: staging: drop zram and zsmalloc > > Bob, I feel you're very rude and I'm really upset. > > You're just dropping the subsystem you didn't do anything without any consensus > from who are contriubting lots of patches to make it works well for a long time. I apologize for that, at least I should add [RFC] in the patch title! -- 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