Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:59:27 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -next v6 2/2] mm/zswap: delay the initializaton of zswap |
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 06:17:12PM +0100, Vitaly Wool wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:30 AM Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> wrote: > > > > Since some users may not use zswap, the zswap_pool is wasted. Save memory > > by delaying the initialization of zswap until enabled. > > To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of this. Would enabling zswap module > build instead solve your problem?
making zswap build modular would be a mess. It is core MM infrastructure and now we'd need to start dealing with adding and removing it at runtime as well as module refcounting.
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