From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752974Ab2AWO2G (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:28:06 -0500 Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.158]:53591 "EHLO e37.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752317Ab2AWO2E (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:28:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4F1D6E44.6070509@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:27:16 -0600 From: Seth Jennings User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Magenheimer , Brian King , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Wilk , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: zsmalloc: memory allocator for compressed pages References: <1326149520-31720-1-git-send-email-sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120120140344.2fb399e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20120120140344.2fb399e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12012314-7408-0000-0000-000002187ECF Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey Andrew, Thanks for the feedback. On 01/20/2012 04:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:51:55 -0600 > Seth Jennings wrote: > > The changelog doesn't really describe why the code was written and > provides no reason for anyone to merge it. This is the most important > part of the patch description and you completely omitted it! Sorry about that. The purpose is to replace the xvmalloc allocator that both zcache and zram use that suffers from the high fragmentation described. I 'll be sure to add this to the cover letter. I was thinking it would go to lib after staging. Thanks, -- Seth