Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:16:18 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:06:42AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > Thanks all, > > > > > > At last, everybody who contributes to zsmalloc want to put it under /lib. > > > > > > Greg, > > > What should I do for promoting this dragging patchset? > > > > You need to get the -mm developers to agree that this is something that > > is worth accepting. I have yet to see any compeling argument why this > > I'm one of mm developers. :) > Yes. I hope Andrew have a time to take a look. > > > even needs to be in the kernel in the first place. > > Confused. what do you mean "this"? "zsmalloc" or "zram" or "both"? > If you mean "zsmalloc", I guess there were some lengthy thread about > "why we need a new another allocator". Unfortunately, I didn't follow it > at that time. Nitin, Pekka, Could you point out that thread? or summarize > the result. > > > > > I'm not moving this anywhere until you get their acceptance. > > I understand you. > > It's one of problem in current mm mailing list. > As you know, many mm guys works for server, not embedded so they don't have > big interest about embedded feature so prioirty of the feature was always > low. CMA proved it and next turn is zram. Even new-comer in mm is few so > review bandwidth is always low, too. :( > > How can I poke them?
You just did. If they ignore this, wait a week, and resend. Persistance is key.
good luck,
greg k-h
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