Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] zero-filled pages awareness

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:50:23PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:34:17AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> Compression of zero-filled pages can unneccessarily cause internal
>> fragmentation, and thus waste memory. This special case can be
>> optimized.
>> 
>> This patch captures zero-filled pages, and marks their corresponding
>> zcache backing page entry as zero-filled. Whenever such zero-filled
>> page is retrieved, we fill the page frame with zero.
>> 
>> Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>This patch applies with a bunch of fuzz, meaning it wasn't made against
>the latest tree, which worries me.  Care to redo it, and the rest of the
>series, and resend it?

Ok, sorry for the confusing, I will do it today, thanks Greg. :-)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>
>thanks,
>
>greg k-h
>
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