Document brief description of compression algorithms' parameters: compression level and pre-trained dictionary. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst index 091e8bb38887..58d79f9099e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst @@ -102,15 +102,26 @@ Examples:: #select lzo compression algorithm echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm -For the time being, the `comp_algorithm` content does not necessarily -show every compression algorithm supported by the kernel. We keep this -list primarily to simplify device configuration and one can configure -a new device with a compression algorithm that is not listed in -`comp_algorithm`. The thing is that, internally, ZRAM uses Crypto API -and, if some of the algorithms were built as modules, it's impossible -to list all of them using, for instance, /proc/crypto or any other -method. This, however, has an advantage of permitting the usage of -custom crypto compression modules (implementing S/W or H/W compression). +For the time being, the `comp_algorithm` content shows only compression +algorithms that are supported by zram. + +It is also possible to pass algorithm specific configuration parameters:: + + #set compression level to 8 + echo "zstd level=8" > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm + +Note that `comp_algorithm` also supports `algo=name` format:: + + #set compression level to 8 + echo "algo=zstd level=8" > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm + +Certain compression algorithms support pre-trained dictionaries, which +significantly change algorithms' characteristics. In order to configure +compression algorithm to use external pre-trained dictionary, pass full +path to the dictionary along with other parameters:: + + #pass path to pre-trained dictionary + echo "algo=zstd dict=/etc/dictioary" > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm 4) Set Disksize =============== @@ -442,6 +453,15 @@ configuration::: #select deflate recompression algorithm, priority 2 echo "algo=deflate priority=2" > /sys/block/zramX/recomp_algorithm +The `recomp_algorithm` also supports algorithm configuration parameters, e.g. +compression level and pre-trained dircionary:: + + #pass compression level + echo "algo=zstd level=8" > /sys/block/zramX/recomp_algorithm + + #pass path to pre-trained dictionary + echo "algo=zstd dict=/etc/dictioary" > /sys/block/zramX/recomp_algorithm + Another device attribute that CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP enables is recompress, which controls recompression. -- 2.45.0.rc1.225.g2a3ae87e7f-goog
