Document user-space visible device attributes that
are enabled by ZRAM_MULTI_COMP.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 7 +--
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
index c73b16930449..88957fcb6ad7 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
@@ -401,6 +401,61 @@ budget in next setting is user's job.
If admin wants to measure writeback count in a certain period, they could
know it via /sys/block/zram0/bd_stat's 3rd column.
+recompression
+-------------
+
+With CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP, zram can recompress idle/huge pages using
+alternative (secondary) compression algorithm. The basic idea is that
+alternative compression algorithm can provide better compression ratio
+at a price of (potentially) slower compression/decompression speeds.
+Alternative compression algorithm can, for example, be more successful
+compressing huge pages (those that default algorithm failed to compress).
+Another application is idle pages recompression - pages that are cold and
+sit in the memory can be recompressed using more effective algorithm and,
+hence, reduce zsmalloc memory usage.
+
+With CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP, zram will setup two compression algorithms
+per-CPU: primary and secondary ones. Primary zram compressor is explained
+in "3) Select compression algorithm", the secondary algorithm is configured
+in a similar way, using recomp_algorithm device attribute:
+
+Examples::
+
+ #show supported recompression algorithms
+ cat /sys/block/zramX/recomp_algorithm
+ zstd [lzo]
+
+ #select zstd recompression algorithm
+ echo zstd > /sys/block/zramX/recomp_algorithm
+
+Another device attribute that CONFIG_ZRAM_MULTI_COMP enables is recompress,
+which controls recompression:
+
+Examples::
+
+ #IDLE pages recompression is activated by `idle` mode
+ echo idle > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+
+ #HUGE pages recompression is activated by `huge` mode
+ echo huge > /sys/block/zram0/recompress
+
+ #HUGE_IDLE pages recompression is activated by `huge_idle` mode
+ echo huge_idle > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+
+The number of idle pages can be significant, so user-space can pass a size
+watermark value to the recompress knob, to filter out idle pages for
+recompression: zram will recompress only idle pages of equal or greater
+size:::
+
+ #recompress idle pages larger than 3000 bytes
+ echo 3000 > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+
+ #recompress idle pages larger than 2000 bytes
+ echo 2000 > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+
+Recompression is mostly focused on idle pages (except for huge pages
+recompression), so it works better in conjunction with memory tracking.
+
memory tracking
===============
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 12368e773f3d..143c33bd6783 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -1623,9 +1623,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
*
* Corresponding ZRAM slot should be locked.
*/
-static int zram_recompress(struct zram *zram,
- u32 index,
- struct page *page,
+static int zram_recompress(struct zram *zram, u32 index, struct page *page,
int size_watermark)
{
unsigned long handle_prev;
@@ -1708,8 +1706,7 @@ static int zram_recompress(struct zram *zram,
static ssize_t recompress_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
- const char *buf,
- size_t len)
+ const char *buf, size_t len)
{
struct zram *zram = dev_to_zram(dev);
unsigned long nr_pages = zram->disksize >> PAGE_SHIFT;
--
2.38.0.rc1.362.ged0d419d3c-goog
