Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/21] mm/zsmalloc: Split zsdesc from struct page

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On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 01:36:37PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (23/12/01 11:28), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > Therefore, this series introduces new descriptor for zsmalloc, called
> > > zsdesc. It overlays struct page for now, but will eventually be allocated
> > > independently in the future. And apart from dynamic allocation of descriptors,
> > > this is a nice cleanup.
> > 
> > And the new descriptor doesn't bloat anything for zsmalloc meta size. Right?
> > Please specify it into the description.
> 
> Right, that popped up [1] previously but I'm not sure if we had a definitive
> answer.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230720071826.GE955071@xxxxxxxxxx/

Today, it remains an overlay of struct page.  In the future, it will be
separately allocated, and may end up shrinking.  TBD.




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