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

[Barry Song]

On Wed, Feb 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM Sergey Senozhatsky
<senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Hi Sergey, Jens,

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

Thanks for your comments and improvements. will send v3 accordingly.

Best regard
Barry