Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion

[Minchan Kim]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:02:08AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Hi Minchan,
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 01:17:53AM +0900, Minchan Kim 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.
> >
> >> compression factors better than 2:1?  I have the impression (maybe
> >> wrong) that it does not.  In our use of zram (Chrome OS) typical
> >
> >Since zswap changed allocator from zsmalloc to zbud, I didn't follow
> >because I had no interest of low compressoin ratio allocator so
> >I have no idea of status of zswap at a moment but I guess it would be
> >still 2:1.
> >
> >> overall compression ratios are between 2.5:1 and 3:1.  We would hate
> >> to waste that memory if we switch to zswap.
> >
> >If you have real swap storage, zswap might be better although I have
> >no number but real swap is money for embedded system and it has sudden
> >garbage collection on firmware side if we use eMMC or SSD so that it
> >could affect system latency. Morever, if we start to use real swap,
> >maybe we should encrypt the data and it would be severe overhead(CPU
> >and Power).
> >
> 
> Why real swap for embedded system need encrypt the data? I think there
> is no encrypt for data against server and desktop.

I have used some portable device but suddenly, I lost it or was stolen.
A hacker can pick it up and read my swap and found my precious information.
I don't want it. I guess it's one of reason ChromeOS don't want to use real
swap.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-discuss/92Fvi4Ezego/ZvbrC3L2FG4J

> 
> >And what I am considering after promoting for zram feature is
> >asynchronous I/O and it's possible because zram is block device.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >-- 
> >Kind regards,
> >Minchan Kim
> >
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Minchan Kim
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