From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] zram: use crypto api to check alg availability
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 11:27:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160601022708.GL19976@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160601010707.GB461@swordfish>
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 10:07:07AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello Minchan,
>
> On (06/01/16 09:03), Minchan Kim wrote:
> [..]
> > So, if we do 'cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm", every crypto modules
> > in the backend array are loaded in memory and not unloaded until admin
> > executes rmmod? Right?
>
> yes, I think so.
It scares me. Common case, except one we choosed, every loaded modules
will be not used. I think it's really not good. Although the wastage
might be not big now, it will be heavy as crypto comp modules are
increased.
What do you think about it?
>
> [..]
> > If user load out-of-tree crypto compression module, what's status of
> > comp_algorithm?
> >
> > #> insmod foo_crypto.ko
> > #> echo foo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
> > #> cat /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm
> > lzo lz4 [foo]
> > ?
>
> yes, "lzo lz4 [out-of-tree-module-name]".
Makes sense!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-01 2:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 12:20 [PATCH v2 0/8] zram: switch to crypto api Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] zram: rename zstrm find-release functions Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] zram: switch to crypto compress API Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 23:40 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 23:44 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 1:17 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] zram: align zcomp interface to crypto comp API Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 23:48 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 1:13 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] zram: use crypto api to check alg availability Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 0:03 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 1:07 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 2:27 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2016-06-01 3:17 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 6:47 ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-01 7:48 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 14:59 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-06-02 2:40 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] zram: cosmetic: cleanup documentation Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 0:06 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] zram: delete custom lzo/lz4 Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 0:08 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] zram: add more compression algorithms Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 0:24 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 12:20 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] zram: drop gfp_t from zcomp_strm_alloc() Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-06-01 0:41 ` Minchan Kim
2016-05-31 12:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] zram: switch to crypto api Sergey Senozhatsky
2016-05-31 19:07 ` Andrew Morton
2016-06-01 0:58 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
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