On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:29 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 04:51:15PM -0700, Nhat Pham wrote: > > Out of zswap's 3 allocators, zsmalloc is the clear superior in terms of > > memory utilization, both in theory and as observed in practice, with its > > high storage density and low internal fragmentation. zsmalloc is also > > more actively developed and maintained, since it is the allocator of > > choice for zswap for many users, as well as the only allocator for zram. > > Dumb question from an outside, why do we then even keep the other > two allocators around? > Maybe legacy users who explicitly configure zbud/z3fold? We have a couple internally, and have to manually undo those configuration after we stop compiling these 2 allocators. But yeah, I don't see why we should keep these 2 allocators around. Time to deprecate them? :)
