Hi Minchan, On 08/19/2013 12:10 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:40:45PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: >> Both zswap and zram are used to compress anon pages in memory so as to reduce >> swap io operation. The main different is that zswap uses zbud as its >> allocator >> while zram uses zsmalloc. The other different is zram will create a block >> device, the user need to mkswp and swapon it. >> >> Minchan has areadly try to promote zram/zsmalloc into drivers/block/, but it >> may >> cause increase maintenance headaches. Since the purpose of zswap and zram are >> the same, this patch series try to merge them together as Mel suggested. >> Dropped zram from staging and extended zswap with the same feature as zram. >> >> zswap todo: >> Improve the writeback of zswap pool pages! >> >> Bob Liu (4): >> drivers: staging: drop zram and zsmalloc > > Bob, I feel you're very rude and I'm really upset. > > You're just dropping the subsystem you didn't do anything without any > consensus > from who are contriubting lots of patches to make it works well for a long > time.
I apologize for that, at least I should add [RFC] in the patch title! -- Regards, -Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
