zswap: update docs for runtime-changeable attributes
Change the Documentation/vm/zswap.txt doc to indicate that the "zpool" and "compressor" params are now changeable at runtime. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs interface.
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An example command to enable zswap at runtime, assuming sysfs is mounted
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at /sys, is:
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echo 1 > /sys/modules/zswap/parameters/enabled
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echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled
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When zswap is disabled at runtime it will stop storing pages that are
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being swapped out. However, it will _not_ immediately write out or fault
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@ -49,14 +49,26 @@ Zswap receives pages for compression through the Frontswap API and is able to
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evict pages from its own compressed pool on an LRU basis and write them back to
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the backing swap device in the case that the compressed pool is full.
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Zswap makes use of zbud for the managing the compressed memory pool. Each
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allocation in zbud is not directly accessible by address. Rather, a handle is
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Zswap makes use of zpool for the managing the compressed memory pool. Each
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allocation in zpool is not directly accessible by address. Rather, a handle is
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returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
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accessed. The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed
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pages are freed. The pool is not preallocated.
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pages are freed. The pool is not preallocated. By default, a zpool of type
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zbud is created, but it can be selected at boot time by setting the "zpool"
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attribute, e.g. zswap.zpool=zbud. It can also be changed at runtime using the
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sysfs "zpool" attribute, e.g.
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echo zbud > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/zpool
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The zbud type zpool allocates exactly 1 page to store 2 compressed pages, which
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means the compression ratio will always be 2:1 or worse (because of half-full
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zbud pages). The zsmalloc type zpool has a more complex compressed page
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storage method, and it can achieve greater storage densities. However,
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zsmalloc does not implement compressed page eviction, so once zswap fills it
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cannot evict the oldest page, it can only reject new pages.
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When a swap page is passed from frontswap to zswap, zswap maintains a mapping
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of the swap entry, a combination of the swap type and swap offset, to the zbud
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of the swap entry, a combination of the swap type and swap offset, to the zpool
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handle that references that compressed swap page. This mapping is achieved
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with a red-black tree per swap type. The swap offset is the search key for the
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tree nodes.
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* max_pool_percent - The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed
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pool can occupy.
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Zswap allows the compressor to be selected at kernel boot time by setting the
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“compressor” attribute. The default compressor is lzo. e.g.
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zswap.compressor=deflate
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The default compressor is lzo, but it can be selected at boot time by setting
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the “compressor” attribute, e.g. zswap.compressor=lzo. It can also be changed
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at runtime using the sysfs "compressor" attribute, e.g.
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echo lzo > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor
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When the zpool and/or compressor parameter is changed at runtime, any existing
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compressed pages are not modified; they are left in their own zpool. When a
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request is made for a page in an old zpool, it is uncompressed using its
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original compressor. Once all pages are removed from an old zpool, the zpool
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and its compressor are freed.
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A debugfs interface is provided for various statistic about pool size, number
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of pages stored, and various counters for the reasons pages are rejected.
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