Re: [PATCH 0/7] zram: switch to crypto api
From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed May 25 2016 - 20:42:22 EST
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:29:59PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This has started as a 'add zlib support' work, but after some
> thinking I saw no blockers for a bigger change -- a switch to
> crypto API.
>
> We don't have an idle zstreams list anymore and our write path
> now works absolutely differently, preventing preemption during
> compression. This removes possibilities of read paths preempting
> writes at wrong places and opens the door for a move from custom
> LZO/LZ4 compression backends implementation to a more generic one,
> using crypto compress API.
Hello, Sergey.
I don't look at each patches deeply but nice work! I didn't notice that
rececnt zram changes makes thing simpler. :)
Thanks.