On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:06:26AM -0800, Luigi Semenzato wrote: > If I may add my usual 2c (and some news): > > zram is used by default on all Chrome OS devices. I can't say how > many devices, but it's not a small number, google it, and it's an > important market, low-end laptops for education and the less affluent. > It has been available experimentally for well over a year. > > Android 4.4 KitKat is also using zram, to better support devices with > less than 1 MB RAM. (That's the news.) > > When comparing the relative advantages of the two subsystems (zram and > zswap), let's not forget that considerable effort goes into in tuning > and bug fixing for specific use cases---possibly even more than the > initial development effort. Zram has not just been sitting around in > drivers/staging, it's in serious use. > > If we were to judge systems based merely on theoretical technical > merit, then we should consider switching en masse to FreeBSD. (I said > we should *consider* :). > > I am very familiar with the limitations of zram, but it works well and > I think it would be wise to keep supporting it. Besides, it's small > and AFAICT it interfaces cleanly with the rest of the system, so I > don't see what the big deal is. Then please help with getting it merged properly, and out of staging. thanks, greg k-h -- 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>