Re: [PATCH v2] zram: easy the allocation of zcomp_strm's buffers through vmalloc

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (24/02/06 20:17), Jens Axboe wrote:
[..]
> >>> Minchan, if you have any objections, please chime in.
> >>
> >> Not Minchan, but I do have an issue with the title of the commit, it
> >> doesn't make any sense. Can the maintainer please re-write that to be
> >> something that is appropriate and actually describes what the patch
> >> does?
> > 
> > Thanks Jens. I fully agree, I requested a better commit message in
> > v1 feedback, we probably still can improve on this.
> > 
> > 
> > Something like this?
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > zram: do not allocate physically contiguous strm buffers
> > 
> > Currently zram allocates 2 physically contigous pages per-CPU's
> > compression stream (we may have up to 3 streams per-CPU). Since
> > those buffers are per-CPU we allocate them from CPU hotplug path,
> > which may have higher risks of failed allocations on devices with
> > fragmented memory.
> > 
> > Switch to virtually contiguos allocations - crypto comp does not
> > seem impose requirements on compression working buffers to be
> > physically contiguous.
> 
> Yep, this is much better! Thanks.

Thanks.

Barry, can you please send v3 with the suggested subject and commit
message?