Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: zsmalloc: memory allocator for compressed pages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback.

On 01/20/2012 04:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon,  9 Jan 2012 16:51:55 -0600
> Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The changelog doesn't really describe why the code was written and
> provides no reason for anyone to merge it. <snip>  This is the most important
> part of the patch description and you completely omitted it!

Sorry about that.  The purpose is to replace the xvmalloc allocator
that both zcache and zram use that suffers from the high fragmentation
described.  I 'll be sure to add this to the cover letter.

I was thinking it would go to lib after staging.

Thanks,
--
Seth

_______________________________________________
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Driver Backports]     [DMA Engine]     [Linux GPIO]     [Linux SPI]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Coverity]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Yosemite Backpacking]
  Powered by Linux