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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] Staging: zram: allow partial page operations
On 06/10/2011 06:28 AM, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> Commit 7b19b8d45b216ff3186f066b31937bdbde066f08 (zram: Prevent overflow
> in logical block size) introduced ZRAM_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE constant to
> prevent overflow of logical block size on 64k page kernel.
> However, the current implementation of zram only allow operation on block
> of the same size as a page. That makes theorically legit 4k requests fail
> on 64k page kernel.
>
> This patch makes zram allow operation on partial pages. Basically, it
> means we still do operations on full pages internally, but only copy the
> relevent segments from/to the user memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand<jmarchan@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>




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