On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 00:51:07 +0100 "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The compressed cache for swap pages (zswap) currently needs from 1 to 3 > extra kernel command line parameters in order to make it work: it has to be > enabled by adding a "zswap.enabled=1" command line parameter and if one > wants a different compressor or pool allocator than the default lzo / zbud > combination then these choices also need to be specified on the kernel > command line in additional parameters. > > Using a different compressor and allocator for zswap is actually pretty > common as guides often recommend using the lz4 / z3fold pair instead of > the default one. > In such case it is also necessary to remember to enable the appropriate > compression algorithm and pool allocator in the kernel config manually. > > Let's avoid the need for adding these kernel command line parameters and > automatically pull in the dependencies for the selected compressor > algorithm and pool allocator by adding an appropriate default switches to > Kconfig. > > The default values for these options match what the code was using > previously as its defaults. Shouldn't there be a Documentation/ update along with this change?
