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| author | Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> | 2026-03-11 17:42:48 +0900 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-05 13:53:24 -0700 |
| commit | cedfa028b54e584532026888dec94039b62b3d1f (patch) | |
| tree | 864aeec4d89212f823a594605d4959ded9dbd0b0 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | be5f13d94846e8207c9aac0180b13ce1f762e1b1 (diff) | |
zram: remove chained recompression
Chained recompression has unpredictable behavior and is not useful in
practice.
First, systems usually configure just one alternative recompression
algorithm, which has slower compression/decompression but better
compression ratio. A single alternative algorithm doesn't need chaining.
Second, even with multiple recompression algorithms, chained recompression
is suboptimal. If a lower priority algorithm succeeds, the page is never
attempted with a higher priority algorithm, leading to worse memory
savings. If a lower priority algorithm fails, the page is still attempted
with a higher priority algorithm, wasting resources on the failed lower
priority attempt.
In either case, the system would be better off targeting a specific
priority directly.
Chained recompression also significantly complicates the code. Remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260311084312.1766036-6-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: gao xu <gaoxu2@honor.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst index 967b58c3aad2..60b07a7e30cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst @@ -533,15 +533,6 @@ unexpected results when the same algorithm is configured with different priorities (e.g. different parameters). `priority` is the only way to guarantee that the expected algorithm will be used. -During re-compression for every page, that matches re-compression criteria, -ZRAM iterates the list of registered alternative compression algorithms in -order of their priorities. ZRAM stops either when re-compression was -successful (re-compressed object is smaller in size than the original one) -and matches re-compression criteria (e.g. size threshold) or when there are -no secondary algorithms left to try. If none of the secondary algorithms can -successfully re-compressed the page such a page is marked as incompressible, -so ZRAM will not attempt to re-compress it in the future. - memory tracking =============== |