Re: [PATCH 1/2] zbud: allow PAGE_SIZE allocations

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On 09/16/2015 01:50 PM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
For zram to be able to use zbud via the common zpool API,
allocations of size PAGE_SIZE should be allowed by zpool.
zbud uses the beginning of an allocated page for its internal
structure but it is not a problem as long as we keep track of
such special pages using a newly introduced page flag.
To be able to keep track of zbud pages in any case, struct page's
lru pointer will be used for zbud page lists instead of the one
that used to be part of the aforementioned internal structure.

I don't know how zsmalloc handles uncompressible PAGE_SIZE allocations, but I wouldn't expect it to be any more clever than this? So why duplicate the functionality in zswap and zbud? This could be handled e.g. at the zpool level? Or maybe just in zram, as IIRC in zswap (frontswap) it's valid just to reject a page and it goes to physical swap.

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