Re: [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator

Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14T14:12:24Z

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
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> On 09/14/2015 03:49 PM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
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>> While using ZRAM on a small RAM footprint devices, together with
>> KSM,
>> I ran into several occasions when moving pages from compressed swap back
>> into the "normal" part of RAM caused significant latencies in system
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>
> I'm sure Minchan will want to hear the details of that :)
>
>> operation. By using zbud I lose in compression ratio but gain in
>> determinism, lower latencies and lower fragmentation, so in the coming
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> I doubt the "lower fragmentation" part given what I've read about the design of zbud and zsmalloc?

As it turns out, I see more cases of compaction kicking in and
significantly more compact_stalls with zsmalloc.

~vitaly