On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Luigi Semenzato wrote: >> During earlier discussions of zswap there was a plan to make it work >> with zsmalloc as an option instead of zbud. Does zbud work for > > AFAIR, it was not an optoin but zsmalloc was must but there were > several objections because zswap's notable feature is to dump > compressed object to real swap storage. For that, zswap needs to > store bounded objects in a zpage so that dumping could be bounded, too. > Otherwise, it could encounter OOM easily. >
AFAIR, the next step of zswap should be have a modular allocation layer so that users can choose zsmalloc or zbud to use. Seth? -- 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/
