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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/9] mm/zbud: support highmem pages
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 07:14:15PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com> wrote:
> > zbud is a memory allocator for storing compressed data pages. It keeps
> > two data objects of arbitrary size on a single page. This simple design
> > provides very deterministic behavior on reclamation, which is one of
> > reasons why zswap selected zbud as a default allocator over zsmalloc.
> >
> > Unlike zsmalloc, however, zbud does not support highmem. This is
> > problomatic especially on 32-bit machines having relatively small
> > lowmem. Compressing anonymous pages from highmem and storing them into
> > lowmem could eat up lowmem spaces.
> >
> > This limitation is due to the fact that zbud manages its internal data
> > structures on zbud_header which is kept in the head of zbud_page. For
> > example, zbud_pages are tracked by several lists and have some status
> > information, which are being referenced at any time by the kernel. Thus,
> > zbud_pages should be allocated on a memory region directly mapped,
> > lowmem.
> >
> > After some digging out, I found that internal data structures of zbud
> > can be kept in the struct page, the same way as zsmalloc does. So, this
> > series moves out all fields in zbud_header to struct page. Though it
> > alters quite a lot, it does not add any functional differences except
> > highmem support. I am afraid that this kind of modification abusing
> > several fields in struct page would be ok.
>
> Seth, have you had a chance to review this yet? I'm going to try to
> take a look at it next week if you haven't yet. Letting zbud use
> highmem would be a good thing.

I have looked at it, and it looks sound to me. I seem to remember
having a comment on something, but I'll have to look back over
it. Haven't tested it yet.

Seth

>
>
> >
> > Heesub Shin (9):
> > mm/zbud: tidy up a bit
> > mm/zbud: remove buddied list from zbud_pool
> > mm/zbud: remove lru from zbud_header
> > mm/zbud: remove first|last_chunks from zbud_header
> > mm/zbud: encode zbud handle using struct page
> > mm/zbud: remove list_head for buddied list from zbud_header
> > mm/zbud: drop zbud_header
> > mm/zbud: allow clients to use highmem pages
> > mm/zswap: use highmem pages for compressed pool
> >
> > mm/zbud.c | 244 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------
> > mm/zswap.c | 4 +-
> > 2 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >


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