Re: [RFC PATCH] zsmalloc: make common caches global

From: Sergey Senozhatsky

Date: Tue Jan 20 2026 - 20:58:25 EST


On (26/01/21 01:30), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
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> That was about ~20 times reduction in waste when using 32 pools with
> zswap.

Nice, thanks!

> I suspect we wouldn't be using that many pools with zram.

Hard to tell. We have users that setup many zram devices, even
multiple swap zram devices. In terms of numbers - I think swap
zram users still setup less devices than users that use zram as
a normal block device (that number in theory can be quite high,
depending on use case).