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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/5] zram/zsmalloc promotion
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    On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
    > Hi Luigi,
    >
    > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
    >> During earlier discussions of zswap there was a plan to make it work
    >> with zsmalloc as an option instead of zbud. Does zbud work for
    >
    > AFAIR, it was not an optoin but zsmalloc was must but there were
    > several objections because zswap's notable feature is to dump
    > compressed object to real swap storage. For that, zswap needs to
    > store bounded objects in a zpage so that dumping could be bounded, too.
    > Otherwise, it could encounter OOM easily.
    >

    AFAIR, the next step of zswap should be have a modular allocation layer so that
    users can choose zsmalloc or zbud to use.

    Seth?

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    Regards,
    --Bob


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