On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 02:55:06PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't think that's appropriate for a patch in the MM subsystem. > > I am heading to the airport shortly so this email is a bit hastily typed. > > Perhaps a compromise can be reached where this code is merged as a driver > not a core mm component. There is a high bar to be in the MM - it has to > work with many many different configurations. > > And drivers don't have such a high bar. They just need to work on a specific > issue and that is it. If zswap ended up in say, drivers/mm that would make > it more palpable I think. > > Thoughts? zswap, the writeback code particularly, depends on a number of non-exported kernel symbols, namely: swapcache_free __swap_writepage __add_to_swap_cache swapcache_prepare swapper_spaces So it can't currently be built as a module and I'm not sure what the MM folks would think about exporting them and making them part of the KABI. Seth -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>