On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Luigi Semenzato wrote: >> During earlier discussions of zswap there was a plan to make it work >> with zsmalloc as an option instead of zbud. Does zbud work for > > AFAIR, it was not an optoin but zsmalloc was must but there were > several objections because zswap's notable feature is to dump > compressed object to real swap storage. For that, zswap needs to > store bounded objects in a zpage so that dumping could be bounded, too. > Otherwise, it could encounter OOM easily. > AFAIR, the next step of zswap should be have a modular allocation layer so that users can choose zsmalloc or zbud to use. Seth? -- Regards, --Bob -- 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>