Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> > 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? > >zswap, the writeback code particularly, depends on a number of >non-exported >kernel symbols, namely: > >swapcache_free >__swap_writepage >__add_to_swap_cache >swapcache_prepare >swapper_spaces > >So it can't currently be built as a module and I'm not sure what the MM >folks would think about exporting them and making them part of the >KABI. > >Seth Could those calls go through front swap? Meaning put the code that uses these calls in there? -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
