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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:32:07 +0800
From: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm: merge zram into zswap
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Hi Minchan,

On 08/19/2013 12:10 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 04:40:45PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
>> Both zswap and zram are used to compress anon pages in memory so as to reduce
>> swap io operation. The main different is that zswap uses zbud as its allocator
>> while zram uses zsmalloc. The other different is zram will create a block
>> device, the user need to mkswp and swapon it.
>>
>> Minchan has areadly try to promote zram/zsmalloc into drivers/block/, but it may
>> cause increase maintenance headaches. Since the purpose of zswap and zram are
>> the same, this patch series try to merge them together as Mel suggested.
>> Dropped zram from staging and extended zswap with the same feature as zram.
>>
>> zswap todo:
>> Improve the writeback of zswap pool pages!
>>
>> Bob Liu (4):
>>   drivers: staging: drop zram and zsmalloc
> 
> Bob, I feel you're very rude and I'm really upset.
> 
> You're just dropping the subsystem you didn't do anything without any consensus
> from who are contriubting lots of patches to make it works well for a long time.

I apologize for that, at least I should add [RFC] in the patch title!

-- 
Regards,
-Bob
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