On (02/22/16 10:34), Minchan Kim wrote:
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> > > I tempted it several times with same reason you pointed out.
> > > But my worry was that if we increase ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER, zram can
> > > consume more memory because we need several pages chain to populate
> > > just a object. Even, at that time, we didn't have compaction scheme
> > > so fragmentation of object in zspage is huge pain to waste memory.
> >
> > well, the thing is -- we end up requesting less pages after all, so
> > zsmalloc has better chances to survive. for example, gcc5 compilation test
>
> Indeed. I saw your test result.
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> > Total 129 489 1627756 1618193 850147
> >
> >
> > that's 891703 - 850147 = 41556 less pages. or 162MB less memory used.
> > 41556 less pages means that zsmalloc had 41556 less chances to fail.
>
>
> Let's think swap-case which is more important for zram now. As you know,
> most of usecase are swap in embedded world.
> Do we really need 16 pages allocator for just less PAGE_SIZE objet
> at the moment which is really heavy memory pressure?
I'll take a look at dynamic class page addition.
-ss
