Hello Karel,
There will be some user-space visible changes in zram 4.1 we'd love to let you know
about.
1) new sysfs node -- /sys/block/zramX/compact
triggers zram memory compaction.
2) zram has deprecated some of the existing stat sysfs attributes. we will
consolidate zramX device's stats in 3 files, rather than having N files (per-stat).
The idea is:
-- the existing RW sysfs device nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
-- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
User-space is advised to use the following files:
-- /sys/block/zram<id>/stat
Represents block layer statistics (read Documentation/block/stat.txt for
details).
-- /sys/block/zram<id>/io_stat
The stat file represents device's I/O statistics not accounted by block
layer and, thus, not available in zram<id>/stat file. It consists of a
single line of text and contains the following stats separated by
whitespace:
failed_reads
failed_writes
invalid_io
notify_free
-- /sys/block/zram<id>/mm_stat
The stat file represents device's mm statistics. It consists of a single
line of text and contains the following stats separated by whitespace:
orig_data_size
compr_data_size
mem_used_total
mem_limit
mem_used_max
zero_pages
num_migrated
deprecated nodes will be around up until linux 4.11 (approx 2 years from now). in the
meantime, zram will warn (once) should any user space app access any of the deprecated
attrs:
"zram: 30788 (cat) Attribute num_reads (and others) will be removed. See zram documentation."
-ss
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