Re: [PATCH] zram: update zram to use zpool

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:30:58AM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Hi Minchan,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:42:07PM +0800, Geliang Tang wrote:
> >> Change zram to use the zpool api instead of directly using zsmalloc.
> >> The zpool api doesn't have zs_compact() and zs_pool_stats() functions.
> >> I did the following two things to fix it.
> >> 1) I replace zs_compact() with zpool_shrink(), use zpool_shrink() to
> >>    call zs_compact() in zsmalloc.
> >> 2) The 'pages_compacted' attribute is showed in zram by calling
> >>    zs_pool_stats(). So in order not to call zs_pool_state() I move the
> >>    attribute to zsmalloc.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > NACK.
> >
> > I already explained why.
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160609013411.GA29779@bbox
> 
> This is a fair statement, to a certain extent. I'll let Geliang speak
> for himself but I am personally interested in this zram extension
> because I want it to work on MMU-less systems. zsmalloc can not handle
> that, so I want to be able to use zram over z3fold.

Could you tell me more detail? What's the usecase?

> 
> Best regards,
>    Vitaly
> 
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