> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > Subject: Re: [PATCHv11 3/4] zswap: add to mm/ > > > Sorry, but I don't think that's appropriate for a patch in the MM subsystem. > > I am heading to the airport shortly so this email is a bit hastily typed. > > Perhaps a compromise can be reached where this code is merged as a driver > not a core mm component. There is a high bar to be in the MM - it has to > work with many many different configurations. > > And drivers don't have such a high bar. They just need to work on a specific > issue and that is it. If zswap ended up in say, drivers/mm that would make > it more palpable I think. > > Thoughts? Hmmm... To me, that sounds like a really good compromise. Then anyone who wants to experiment with compressed swap pages can do so by enabling the zswap driver. And the harder problem of deeply integrating compression into the MM subsystem can proceed in parallel by leveraging and building on the best of zswap and zcache and zram. Seth, if you want to re-post zswap as a driver... even a previous zswap version with zsmalloc and without writeback... I would be willing to ack it. If I correctly understand Mel's concerns, I suspect he might feel the same. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
