Re: [PATCHv3 2/6] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 03:49:23PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote:
> 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 information on zsmalloc and its internals, read the
> documentation at the top of the zsmalloc.c file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

At least, maintainer should notice about known bug of zsmalloc.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=135933481517809&w=3

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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