Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_object() function

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Feb 26 2018 - 00:58:16 EST


Hi Sergey,

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 02:49:27PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > I think it's simple enough. :)
>
> Right. The changes are pretty trivial, that's why I kept then in
> 2 simple patches. Besides, I didn't want to mix zsmalloc and zram
> changes.

As I said earlier, it's not thing we usually do, at least, MM.
Anyway, I don't want to insist on it because it depends each
person's point of view what's the better for review, git-bisect.

>
> > Can't zram ask to zsmalloc about what size is for hugeobject from?
> > With that, zram can save the wartermark in itself and use it.
> > What I mean is as follows,
> >
> > zram:
> > size_t huge_size = _zs_huge_object(pool);
> > ..
> > ..
> > if (comp_size >= huge_size)
> > memcpy(dst, src, 4K);
>
> Yes, can do. My plan was to keep it completely internally to zsmalloc.
> Who knows, it might become smart enough one day to do something more
> than just size comparison. Any reason you used that leading underscore

Let's do that in future if someone want it. :)

> in _zs_huge_object()?


Nope. It's just typo. Let's think better name.
How about using zs_huge_size()?