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

Chris Down chris at chrisdown.name
Wed Jan 17 03:46:57 AEDT 2024


Vitaly Wool writes:
>> Existing users, if any, should voice their objections. Otherwise, we can
>> remove z3fold in a few releases.
>
>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.

Why should that block completely unrelated cleanup work? Let's please not add 
dependencies between patches when there don't need to be.


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