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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library
    On 01/20/2012 05:12 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:

    > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:51:56 -0600
    > Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
    >
    >> This patch creates a new memory allocation library named
    >> zsmalloc.
    >
    > I haven't really begun to look at this yet. The code is using many
    > fields of struct page in new ways. This is key information for anyone
    > to effectively review the code. So please carefully document (within
    > the code itself) the ways in which the various page fields are used:
    > semantic meaning of the overload, relationships between them, any
    > locking rules or assumptions. Ditto any other data structures. This
    > code should be reviewed very carefully by others so please implement it
    > with that intention.
    >


    > It appears that a pile of dead code will be generated if CPU hotplug is
    > disabled. (That's if it compiles at all!). Please take a look at users
    > of hotcpu_notifier() - this facility cunningly causes all the hotplug code
    > to vanish from vmlinux if it is unneeded.
    >
    >


    ok, will look into these issues and add necessary documentation.


    > afacit this code should be added to core mm/. Addition of code like
    > this to core mm/ will be fiercely resisted on principle! Hence the
    > (currently missing) justifications for adding it had best be good ones.
    >


    I don't think this code should ever get into mm/ since its just a driver
    specific allocator. However its used by more than one driver (zcache and
    zram) so it may be moved to lib/ or drivers/zsmalloc atmost?

    Thanks,
    Nitin


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