From 34efe1c3b688944d9817a5faaab7aad870182c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:39:41 +0900 Subject: zram: add max_pages param to recompression Introduce "max_pages" param to recompress device attribute which sets an upper limit on the number of entries (pages) zram attempts to recompress (in this particular recompression call). S/W recompression can be quite expensive so limiting the number of pages recompress touches can be quite helpful. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240329094050.2815699-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Acked-by: Brian Geffon Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst index ee2b0030d416..091e8bb38887 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst @@ -466,6 +466,11 @@ of equal or greater size::: #recompress idle pages larger than 2000 bytes echo "type=idle threshold=2000" > /sys/block/zramX/recompress +It is also possible to limit the number of pages zram re-compression will +attempt to recompress::: + + echo "type=huge_idle max_pages=42" > /sys/block/zramX/recompress + Recompression of idle pages requires memory tracking. During re-compression for every page, that matches re-compression criteria, -- cgit v1.2.3