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From: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Henry Burns <henrywolfeburns@gmail.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@thunk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] zram: use common zpool interface
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:52:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJBoFOVs-W_RAocRmmFmf=zOwMBODxP7XFkrhcOHDii-aXkuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191014104717.GA43868@jagdpanzerIV>

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:49 PM Sergey Senozhatsky
<sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On (10/10/19 23:20), Vitaly Wool wrote:
> [..]
> >  static const char *default_compressor = "lzo-rle";
> >
> > +#define BACKEND_PAR_BUF_SIZE 32
> > +static char backend_par_buf[BACKEND_PAR_BUF_SIZE];
>
> We can have multiple zram devices (zram0 .. zramN), I guess it
> would make sense not to force all devices to use one particular
> allocator (e.g. see comp_algorithm_store()).
>
> If the motivation for the patch set is that zsmalloc does not
> perform equally well for various data access patterns, then the
> same is true for any other allocator. Thus, I think, we need to
> have a per-device 'allocator' knob.

We were thinking here in per-SoC terms basically, but this is a valid
point. Since zram has a well-established sysfs per-device
configuration interface, backend choice better be moved there. Agree?

~Vitaly

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-10 20:04 [PATCH 0/3] Allow ZRAM to use any zpool-compatible backend Vitaly Wool
2019-10-10 20:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] zpool: extend API to match zsmalloc Vitaly Wool
2019-10-18 11:23   ` Dan Streetman
2019-10-10 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] zsmalloc: add compaction and huge class callbacks Vitaly Wool
2019-10-14 10:38   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-10 20:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] zram: use common zpool interface Vitaly Wool
2019-10-14 10:47   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-14 11:52     ` Vitaly Wool [this message]
2019-10-15  2:04       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-14 10:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] Allow ZRAM to use any zpool-compatible backend Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-10-14 11:49   ` Vitaly Wool
2019-10-14 16:41 ` Minchan Kim
2019-10-15  7:39   ` Vitaly Wool
2019-10-15 20:00     ` Minchan Kim
2019-10-21 14:21       ` Vitaly Wool
2019-10-30  0:10         ` Minchan Kim
2019-11-13 15:54           ` Vitaly Wool
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-14 13:49 [PATCH 0/3] allow zram to use zbud as underlying allocator Vitaly Wool
2015-09-14 13:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] zram: use common zpool interface Vitaly Wool
2015-09-15  1:12   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-09-15  6:03     ` Dan Streetman

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