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@@ -371,6 +371,31 @@ config CLEANCACHE If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache +config ZSMALLOC + bool "Memory allocator for compressed pages" + depends on MMU + default n + help + zsmalloc is a slab-based memory allocator designed to store + compressed RAM pages. zsmalloc uses virtual memory mapping + in order to reduce fragmentation. However, this results in a + non-standard allocator interface where a handle, not a pointer, is + returned by an alloc(). This handle must be mapped in order to + access the allocated space. + +config PGTABLE_MAPPING + bool "Use page table mapping to access object in zsmalloc" + depends on ZSMALLOC + help + By default, zsmalloc uses a copy-based object mapping method to + access allocations that span two pages. However, if a particular + architecture (ex, ARM) performs VM mapping faster than copying, + then you should select this. This causes zsmalloc to use page table + mapping rather than copying for object mapping. + + You can check speed with zsmalloc benchmark[1]. + [1] https://github.com/spartacus06/zsmalloc + config CMA bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator framework" # Currently there is only one allocator so force it on |