Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 3/3] mm/zsmalloc: increase ZS_MAX_PAGES_PER_ZSPAGE

[Minchan Kim]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:59:54PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (02/22/16 11:34), Minchan Kim wrote:
> [..]
> > > I'll take a look at dynamic class page addition.
> > 
> > Thanks, Sergey.
> > 
> > Just a note:
> > 
> > I am preparing zsmalloc migration now and almost done so I hope
> > I can send it within two weeks. In there, I changed a lot of
> > things in zsmalloc, page chaining, struct page fields usecases
> > and locking scheme and so on. The zsmalloc fragment/migration
> > is really painful now so we should solve it first so I hope
> > you help to review that and let's go further dynamic chaining
> > after that, please. :)
> 
> oh, sure.
> 
> so let's keep dynamic page allocation out of sight for now.
> I'll do more tests with the increase ORDER and if it's OK then
> hopefully we can just merge it, it's quite simple and shouldn't
> interfere with any of the changes you are about to introduce.

Thanks.

And as another idea, we could try fallback approach that
we couldn't meet nr_pages to minimize wastage so let's fallback
to order-0 page like as-is. It will enhance, at least than now
with small-amount of code compared to dynmaic page allocation.