Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161116Ab3DKR4x (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:56:53 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:47974 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965048Ab3DKR4v convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:56:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:56:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Magenheimer To: Minchan Kim , Seth Jennings Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Shaohua Li , Bob Liu , Shuah Khan Subject: RE: zsmalloc defrag (Was: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory) References: <1365400862-9041-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20130409012719.GB3467@blaptop> <20130409013606.GC3467@blaptop> <51647F94.6000907@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130410005801.GH6836@blaptop> In-Reply-To: <20130410005801.GH6836@blaptop> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.7 (607090) [OL 12.0.6668.5000 (x86)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2848 Lines: 64 > From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan@kernel.org] > Subject: Re: zsmalloc defrag (Was: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory) > > Hi Seth, > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 03:52:36PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: > > On 04/08/2013 08:36 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:27:19AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > >> Hi Dan, > > >> > > >> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:32:38AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > >>>> From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan@kernel.org] > > >>>> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 12:01 AM > > >>>> Subject: [PATCH] mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory > > >>> > > >>> (patch removed) > > >>> > > >>>> Fragment ratio is almost same but memory consumption and compile time > > >>>> is better. I am working to add defragment function of zsmalloc. > > >>> > > >>> Hi Minchan -- > > >>> > > >>> I would be very interested in your design thoughts on > > >>> how you plan to add defragmentation for zsmalloc. In > > >> > > >> What I can say now about is only just a word "Compaction". > > >> As you know, zsmalloc has a transparent handle so we can do whatever > > >> under user. Of course, there is a tradeoff between performance > > >> and memory efficiency. I'm biased to latter for embedded usecase. > > >> > > >> And I might post it because as you know well, zsmalloc > > > > > > Incomplete sentense, > > > > > > I might not post it until promoting zsmalloc because as you know well, > > > zsmalloc/zram's all new stuffs are blocked into staging tree. > > > Even if we could add it into staging, as you know well, staging is where > > > every mm guys ignore so we end up needing another round to promote it. sigh. > > > > Yes. The lack of compaction/defragmentation support in zsmalloc has not > > been raised as an obstacle to mainline acceptance so I think we should > > wait to add new features to a yet-to-be accepted codebase. > > > > Also, I think this feature is more important to zram than it is to > > zswap/zcache as they can do writeback to free zpages. In other words, > > the fragmentation is a transient issue for zswap/zcache since writeback > > to the swap device is possible. > > Other benefit derived from compaction work is that we can pick a zpage > from zspage and move it into somewhere. It means core mm could control > pages in zsmalloc freely. I'm not sure I understand which is why I'd like to learn more about your proposed design. Are you suggesting that core mm would periodically call zsmalloc-compaction and see what pages get freed? I'm hoping for more control than that. More good discussion for next week! Dan -- 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/