Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:21:06 +0900 | From | Sergey Senozhatsky <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] zsmalloc: small compaction improvements |
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On (07/15/15 01:52), Minchan Kim wrote: > > alrighty... again... > > > > > > > > > > /sys/block/zram<id>/compact is a black box. We provide it, we don't > > > > throttle it in the kernel, and user space is absolutely clueless when > > > > it invokes compaction. From some remote (or alternative) point of > > > > > > But we have zs_can_compact so it can effectively skip the class if it > > > is not proper class. > > > > user triggered compaction can compact too much. > > in its current state triggering a compaction from user space is like > > playing a lottery or a russian roulette. > > We were on different page.
> I thought the motivation from this patchset is to prevent compaction > overhead by frequent user-driven compaction request because user > don't know how they can get free pages by compaction so they should > ask compact frequently with blind.
this is exactly the motivation for this patchset. seriously.
whatever.
-ss
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