[RFC PATCH] mm: z3fold: rename CONFIG_Z3FOLD to CONFIG_Z3FOLD_DEPRECATED

Sergey Senozhatsky senozhatsky at chromium.org
Tue Jan 16 15:27:21 AEDT 2024


On (24/01/15 08:47), Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > At this point I NACK this patch. We're about to submit an allocator
> > which is clearly better that z3fold and is faster that zsmalloc in
> > most cases and that submission will mark z3fold as deprecated. But for
> > now this move is premature.
>
> I think unless there are current users of z3fold that cannot use
> zsmalloc, the introduction of a new allocator should be irrelevant to
> deprecating z3fold. Do you know of such users? Can you explain why
> zsmalloc is not usable for them?

I second this. I believe "do we know whether z3fold has users"
is a legit question that means no offense.


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