Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752706AbaBJXGS (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:06:18 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59427 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752111AbaBJXGQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:06:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:06:14 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Dan Streetman Cc: Seth Jennings , Linux-MM , linux-kernel , Bob Liu , Minchan Kim , Weijie Yang , Shirish Pargaonkar , Mel Gorman Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/zswap: add writethrough option Message-Id: <20140210150614.c6a1b20553803da5f81acb72@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1387459407-29342-1-git-send-email-ddstreet@ieee.org> <1390831279-5525-1-git-send-email-ddstreet@ieee.org> <20140203150835.f55fd427d0ebb0c2943f266b@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:05:14 -0500 Dan Streetman wrote: > > > > It does sound like the feature is of marginal benefit. Is "zswap > > filled up" an interesting or useful case to optimize? > > > > otoh the addition is pretty simple and we can later withdraw the whole > > thing without breaking anyone's systems. > > ping... > > you still thinking about this or is it a reject for now? I'm not seeing a compelling case for merging it and Minchan sounded rather unconvinced. Perhaps we should park it until/unless a more solid need is found? -- 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/