Re: [RFC] mm: add support for zsmalloc and zcache

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sat Sep 22 2012 - 09:38:35 EST


On 09/22/2012 03:31 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 09/21/2012 09:14 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>>>> +#define MAX_CLIENTS 16
>>>>
>>>> Seems a bit arbitrary. Why 16?
>> Sasha Levin posted a patch to fix this but it was tied in to
>> the proposed KVM implementation, so was never merged.
>>
>
> My patch changed the max pools per client, not the maximum amount of clients.
> That patch has already found it's way in.
>
> (MAX_CLIENTS does look like an arbitrary number though).

btw, while we're on the subject of KVM, the implementation of tmem/kvm was
blocked due to insufficient performance caused by the lack of multi-page
ops/batching.

Are there any plans to make it better in the future?


Thanks,
Sasha

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