Re: [PATCH 1/2] zbud: allow PAGE_SIZE allocations

[Vitaly Wool]

> I don't know how zsmalloc handles uncompressible PAGE_SIZE allocations, but
> I wouldn't expect it to be any more clever than this? So why duplicate the
> functionality in zswap and zbud? This could be handled e.g. at the zpool
> level? Or maybe just in zram, as IIRC in zswap (frontswap) it's valid just
> to reject a page and it goes to physical swap.

>From what I can see, zsmalloc just allocates pages and puts them into
a linked list. Using the beginning of a page for storing an internal
struct is zbud-specific, and so is this patch.
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