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SubjectRe: [PATCH] zram: add zpool support
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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