From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753974Ab3BDC6p (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:58:45 -0500 Received: from LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.151]:60872 "EHLO LGEMRELSE7Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751521Ab3BDC6n (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:58:43 -0500 X-AuditID: 9c930197-b7ca4ae000006ba8-b9-510f23e1a21b Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:58:41 +0900 From: Minchan Kim To: Simon Jeons Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Seth Jennings , Nitin Gupta , Dan Magenheimer , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: Add Kconfig for enabling PTE method Message-ID: <20130204025841.GE2688@blaptop> References: <1359937421-19921-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <1359943329.1590.0.camel@kernel.cn.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359943329.1590.0.camel@kernel.cn.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:02:09PM -0600, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 09:23 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > Zsmalloc has two methods 1) copy-based and 2) pte based to access > > allocations that span two pages. > > You can see history why we supported two approach from [1]. > > > > But it was bad choice that adding hard coding to select architecture > > which want to use pte based method. This patch removed it and adds > > new Kconfig to select the approach. > > > > This patch is based on next-20130202. > > What's the meaning of 'zs' in zsmalloc? It's short for what? I'm not right person to answer but I guess it stands for compressed slab. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim