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

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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

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