Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] zram: introduce zram memory tracking

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Apr 19 2018 - 22:18:44 EST


On (04/20/18 11:09), Minchan Kim wrote:
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> > hm, OK, can we get this info into the changelog?
>
> No problem. I will add as follows,
>
> "I used the feature a few years ago to find memory hoggers in userspace
> to notice them what memory they have wasted without touch for a long time.
> With it, they could reduce unnecessary memory space. However, at that time,
> I hacked up zram for the feature but now I need the feature again so
> I decided it would be better to upstream rather than keeping it alone.
> I hope I submit the userspace tool to use the feature soon"

Shall we then just wait until you resubmit the "complete" patch set: zram
tracking + the user space tool which would parse the tracking output?

-ss