From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx116.postini.com [74.125.245.116]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D14436B006C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:15:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rq2so681002pbb.14 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:16:18 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] zram/zsmalloc promotion Message-ID: <20121031021618.GA1142@kroah.com> References: <1351501009-15111-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20121031010642.GN15767@bbox> <20121031014209.GB2672@kroah.com> <20121031020443.GP15767@bbox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121031020443.GP15767@bbox> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Minchan Kim Cc: Andrew Morton , Nitin Gupta , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Seth Jennings , Jens Axboe , Dan Magenheimer , Pekka Enberg , gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:04:43AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:06:42AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > Thanks all, > > > > > > At last, everybody who contributes to zsmalloc want to put it under /lib. > > > > > > Greg, > > > What should I do for promoting this dragging patchset? > > > > You need to get the -mm developers to agree that this is something that > > is worth accepting. I have yet to see any compeling argument why this > > I'm one of mm developers. :) > Yes. I hope Andrew have a time to take a look. > > > even needs to be in the kernel in the first place. > > Confused. what do you mean "this"? "zsmalloc" or "zram" or "both"? > If you mean "zsmalloc", I guess there were some lengthy thread about > "why we need a new another allocator". Unfortunately, I didn't follow it > at that time. Nitin, Pekka, Could you point out that thread? or summarize > the result. > > > > > I'm not moving this anywhere until you get their acceptance. > > I understand you. > > It's one of problem in current mm mailing list. > As you know, many mm guys works for server, not embedded so they don't have > big interest about embedded feature so prioirty of the feature was always > low. CMA proved it and next turn is zram. Even new-comer in mm is few so > review bandwidth is always low, too. :( > > How can I poke them? You just did. If they ignore this, wait a week, and resend. Persistance is key. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org