Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (07/08/15 00:01), Minchan Kim wrote:
[..]
> > But why would we do this? Yes, it's kinda-sorta bad -- we were not
> > able to register zspool shrinker, so there will be no automatic
> > compaction... And that's it.
> > 
> > It does not affect zsmalloc/zram functionality by any means. Including
> > compaction itself -- user still has a way to compact zspool (manually).
> > And in some scenarios user will never even see automatic compaction in
> > action (assuming that there is a plenty of RAM available).
> > 
> > Can you explain your decision?
> 
> I don't think it would fail in *real practice*.
> Althout it might happen, what does zram could help in that cases?
> 

This argument depends on the current register_shrinker() implementation,
should some one add additional return branch there and it's done.

> If it were failed, it means there is already little memory on the system
> so zram could not be helpful for those environment.
> IOW, zram should be enabled earlier.
> 
> If you want it strongly, please reproduce such failing and prove that
> zram was helpful for the system.

No, thanks. I'll just remove it.

	-ss
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