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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@lge.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm/zsmalloc: always set movable/highmem flag to the zspage
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:10:05 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170321111005.GA28016@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489632398-31501-2-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Hi Joonsoo,

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:46:35AM +0900, js1304@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
> 
> Zspage is always movable and is used through zs_map_object() function
> which returns directly accessible pointer that contains content of
> zspage. It is independent on the user's allocation flag.
> Therefore, it's better to always set movable/highmem flag to the zspage.
> After that, we don't need __GFP_MOVABLE/__GFP_HIGHMEM clearing in
> cache_alloc_handle()/cache_alloc_zspage() since there is no zs_malloc
> caller who specifies __GFP_MOVABLE/__GFP_HIGHMEM.

Hmm, I wanted this when you pointed out to me firstly but when I think
again, I don't see it's improvement. Sorry for that.
The zs_malloc is exported symbol and it has gfp_t argument so user can
do whatever he want with any zone modifiers flags. IOW, if someuser want
to allocate pages from {normal|dma} zone by whatever reason, he can
omit __GFP_HIGHMEM from the gfp flag to fullfill the goal.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-21 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16  2:46 [PATCH 0/4] zram: implement deduplication in zram js1304
2017-03-16  2:46 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm/zsmalloc: always set movable/highmem flag to the zspage js1304
2017-03-21 11:10   ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2017-03-23  2:10     ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-03-24  0:34       ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-16  2:46 ` [PATCH 2/4] zram: introduce zram_entry to prepare dedup functionality js1304
2017-03-16  2:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] zram: implement deduplication in zram js1304
2017-03-21 23:41   ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-23  3:04     ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-03-24  0:38       ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-23 13:40   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-03-28  0:28     ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-03-16  2:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] zram: make deduplication feature optional js1304
2017-03-22  0:00   ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-23  3:05     ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-03-27  8:11       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-03-28  1:02         ` Joonsoo Kim
2017-03-28  2:22           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-03-28  2:50             ` Minchan Kim
2017-03-28  5:12               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2017-03-28  5:57                 ` Minchan Kim

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