Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2016 10:43:45 +0900 | From | Sergey Senozhatsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] zram: add zpool support |
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Hello,
On (06/09/16 10:34), Minchan Kim wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:51:28AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This patch adds zpool support for zram, it will allow us to use both > > > the zpool api and directly zsmalloc api in zram. > > > > besides the problems below, this was discussed a while ago and I > > believe Minchan is still against it, as nobody has so far shown what > > the benefit to zram would be; zram doesn't need the predictability, or > > evictability, of zbud or z3fold. > > Right. > > Geliang, I cannot ack without any *detail* that what's the problem of > zram/zsmalloc, why we can't fix it in zsmalloc itself. > The zbud and zsmalloc is otally different design to aim different goal > determinism vs efficiency so you can choose what you want between zswap > and zram rather than mixing the features.
I'd also probably Cc Vitaly Wool on this
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146537877415982&w=2)
-ss
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