Re: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: Ensure handle is never 0 on success

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Thu Nov 07 2013 - 12:12:33 EST


On 11/07/2013 02:04 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:

I'm guilty and I have been busy by other stuff. Sorry for that.
Fortunately, I discussed this issue with Hugh in this Linuxcon for a
long time(Thanks Hugh!) he felt zram's block device abstraction is
better design rather than frontswap backend stuff although it's a question
where we put zsmalloc. I will CC Hugh because many of things is related
to swap subsystem and his opinion is really important.
And I discussed it with Rik and he feel positive about zram.

To clarify that, I agree with Minchan that there are certain
workloads where zram is probably more appropriate than zswap.

For most of the workloads that I am interested in, zswap will
be more interesting, but zram seems to have its own niche, and
I certainly do not want to hold back the embedded folks...

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