Re: [PATCH 4/6] zram: Add QPaCE zcomp backend
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Oct 01 2026 - 04:52:09 EST
On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 07:52:13AM -0700, Georgi Djakov wrote:
> Add a zcomp backend for the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine (QPaCE) so
> zram can expose qpace-lz4 as a selectable compression algorithm when the
> QPaCE driver is available.
>
> Compress and decompress operations are handled via the QPaCE urgent
> synchronous path: each request DMA-maps the source and destination
> buffers, issues a blocking hardware command, and returns the result size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/zram/Kconfig | 11 +++
> drivers/block/zram/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/block/zram/backend_qpace.c | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
So entire qpace should go here, no? Why did you create this entire layer
of indirection, singleton management under drivers/soc?
> drivers/block/zram/backend_qpace.h | 13 +++
> drivers/block/zram/zcomp.c | 11 ++-
> 5 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/backend_qpace.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/block/zram/backend_qpace.h
Best regards,
Krzysztof