From: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: add shrinker
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:51:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMJBoFPWVGfwPK5gC+MJOXHQ=d4D+MM+6yBNVXEiVmCnKW_44Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161011213648.GC27872@dastard>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:14:08PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>> This patch implements shrinker for z3fold. This shrinker
>> implementation does not free up any pages directly but it allows
>> for a denser placement of compressed objects which results in
>> less actual pages consumed and higher compression ratio therefore.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
>
> This seems to implement the shrinker API we removed a ~3 years ago
> (commit a0b02131c5fc ("shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.")). Forward
> porting and testing required, perhaps?
Bah, right. That's the wrong patch I submitted (for the 3.10-stable).
Thanks for pointing out, I'll come up with the right patch shortly.
~vitaly
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-11 21:14 Vitaly Wool
2016-10-11 21:36 ` Dave Chinner
2016-10-11 21:51 ` Vitaly Wool [this message]
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