Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-02-13 Thread Seth Jennings
On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 > Seth Jennings wrote: > >> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator >> from the staging tree to lib/ > > Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc > yet. At least, I

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-02-13 Thread Seth Jennings
On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 Seth Jennings sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/ Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Minchan Kim
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:28:41AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 > > Seth Jennings wrote: > > > >> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator > >> from the staging tree to lib/ > > > > Hate to

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:28:41 -0600 Seth Jennings wrote: > Question, are you saying that you'd like to see the zsmalloc promotion > in a separate patch? > > My reason for including the zsmalloc promotion inside the zswap > patches was that it promoted and introduced a user all together. >

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Seth Jennings
On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 > Seth Jennings wrote: > >> This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator >> from the staging tree to lib/ > > Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc > yet. At least, I

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Seth Jennings
On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 Seth Jennings sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/ Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:28:41 -0600 Seth Jennings sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Question, are you saying that you'd like to see the zsmalloc promotion in a separate patch? My reason for including the zsmalloc promotion inside the zswap patches was that it promoted and introduced a user

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-30 Thread Minchan Kim
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:28:41AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: On 01/29/2013 04:51 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 Seth Jennings sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 Seth Jennings wrote: > This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator > from the staging tree to lib/ Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc yet. At least, I haven't, and I haven't seen others do so. So how's about we

[PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-29 Thread Seth Jennings
This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/ zswap depends on this allocator for storing compressed RAM pages in an efficient way under system wide memory pressure where high-order (greater than 0) page allocation are very likely to fail. For more

[PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-29 Thread Seth Jennings
This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/ zswap depends on this allocator for storing compressed RAM pages in an efficient way under system wide memory pressure where high-order (greater than 0) page allocation are very likely to fail. For more

Re: [PATCHv4 2/7] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:40:22 -0600 Seth Jennings sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator from the staging tree to lib/ Hate to rain on the parade, but... we haven't reviewed zsmalloc yet. At least, I haven't, and I haven't seen others