Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751730Ab3C1Eax (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:30:53 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:27762 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750815Ab3C1Eaw (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:30:52 -0400 Message-ID: <5153C76E.3050203@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:30:38 +0800 From: Bob Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Magenheimer CC: Seth Jennings , Konrad Wilk , Minchan Kim , Robert Jennings , Nitin Gupta , Wanpeng Li , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zsmalloc zbud hybrid design discussion? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 31 On 03/28/2013 04:04 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Seth and all zproject folks -- > > I've been giving some deep thought as to how a zpage > allocator might be designed that would incorporate the > best of both zsmalloc and zbud. > > Rather than dive into coding, it occurs to me that the > best chance of success would be if all interested parties > could first discuss (on-list) and converge on a design > that we can all agree on. If we achieve that, I don't > care who writes the code and/or gets the credit or > chooses the name. If we can't achieve consensus, at > least it will be much clearer where our differences lie. > > Any thoughts? Can't agree more! Hoping we would agree on a design dealing well with density/fragmentation/pageframe-reclaim and better integration with MM. And then working together to implement it. -- Regards, -Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/