On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:51:28AM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This patch adds zpool support for zram, it will allow us to use both > > the zpool api and directly zsmalloc api in zram. > > besides the problems below, this was discussed a while ago and I > believe Minchan is still against it, as nobody has so far shown what > the benefit to zram would be; zram doesn't need the predictability, or > evictability, of zbud or z3fold. Right. Geliang, I cannot ack without any *detail* that what's the problem of zram/zsmalloc, why we can't fix it in zsmalloc itself. The zbud and zsmalloc is otally different design to aim different goal determinism vs efficiency so you can choose what you want between zswap and zram rather than mixing the features. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>