From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756982Ab3AaUSz (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:18:55 -0500 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:35701 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755503Ab3AaUSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:18:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:07:31 -0600 From: Robert Jennings To: Seth Jennings Cc: Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Dan Magenheimer , Jenifer Hopper , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Larry Woodman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 3/7] zswap: add to mm/ Message-ID: <20130131200731.GA11067@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mail-Followup-To: Seth Jennings , Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Dan Magenheimer , Jenifer Hopper , Mel Gorman , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , Larry Woodman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org References: <1359495627-30285-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1359495627-30285-4-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130131070716.GF23548@blaptop> <510AC0C6.4020705@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <510AC0C6.4020705@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13013120-5806-0000-0000-00001F003290 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Seth Jennings (sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote: > On 01/31/2013 01:07 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 03:40:23PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > >> zswap is a thin compression backend for frontswap. It receives > >> pages from frontswap and attempts to store them in a compressed > >> memory pool, resulting in an effective partial memory reclaim and > >> dramatically reduced swap device I/O. > >> > >> Additionally, in most cases, pages can be retrieved from this > >> compressed store much more quickly than reading from tradition > >> swap devices resulting in faster performance for many workloads. > >> > >> This patch adds the zswap driver to mm/ > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings > >> --- > >> mm/Kconfig | 15 ++ > >> mm/Makefile | 1 + > >> mm/zswap.c | 656 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> 3 files changed, 672 insertions(+) > >> create mode 100644 mm/zswap.c > >> > >> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig > >> index 278e3ab..14b9acb 100644 > >> --- a/mm/Kconfig > >> +++ b/mm/Kconfig > >> @@ -446,3 +446,18 @@ config FRONTSWAP > >> and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. > >> > >> If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. > >> + > >> +config ZSWAP > >> + bool "In-kernel swap page compression" > >> + depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO > >> + select CRYPTO_LZO > >> + select ZSMALLOC > > > > Again, I'm asking why zswap should have a dependent on CRPYTO? > > Couldn't we support it as a option? I'd like to use zswap without CRYPTO > > like zram. > > The reason we need CRYPTO is that zswap uses it to support a pluggable > compression model. zswap can use any compressor that has a crypto API > driver. zswap has _symbol dependencies_ on CRYPTO. If it isn't > selected, the build breaks. And we went with a pluggable model so that we could support hardware accelerated compression engines like: 0e16aaf powerpc/crypto: add 842 hardware compression driver --Rob Jennings