On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:35:34PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: > Not a requirement: > > Compaction - compaction would basically involve creating a virtual address > space of sorts, which zsmalloc is capable of through its API with handles, > not pointer. However, as Dan points out this requires a structure the > maintain > the mappings and adds to complexity. Additionally, the need for compaction > diminishes as the allocations are short-lived with frontswap backends doing > writeback and cleancache backends shrinking.
Of course I say this, but for zram, this can be important as the allocations can't be moved out of memory and, therefore, are long lived. I was speaking from the zswap perspective. Thanks, Seth -- 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/
