On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:42 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:31 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The z3fold compressed pages allocator is not widely used, most users use > > zsmalloc. The only disadvantage of zsmalloc in comparison is the > > dependency on MMU, and zbud is a more common option for !MMU as it was > > the default zswap allocator for a long time. > > Johannes and I were chatting about this the other day. We might be > able to disable certain zsmalloc behavior in the case of !MMU, making > it available there too. Once that's happened, we can outright remove > z3fold and zbud, and have one allocator to rule them all? :) (Adding Sergey and Minchan for visibility) I didn't want to bring up the zsmalloc MMU dependency in this thread to reduce noise, but that's also what I had in mind. Sergey and I were also chatting about this the other day :) I thought deprecating z3fold is the low hanging fruit. Then, once we can sort out the MMU dependency in zsmalloc, we can go after zbud as well.
