Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Add Kconfig for enabling PTE method

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On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:02:09PM -0600, Simon Jeons wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 09:23 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Zsmalloc has two methods 1) copy-based and 2) pte based to access
> > allocations that span two pages.
> > You can see history why we supported two approach from [1].
> > 
> > But it was bad choice that adding hard coding to select architecture
> > which want to use pte based method. This patch removed it and adds
> > new Kconfig to select the approach.
> > 
> > This patch is based on next-20130202.
> 
> What's the meaning of 'zs' in zsmalloc? It's short for what?

I'm not right person to answer but I guess it stands for compressed slab.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

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