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authorSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>2015-09-08 15:04:38 -0700
committerMister Oyster <oysterized@gmail.com>2017-09-25 20:44:00 +0200
commit0d6a7cc395ae51e7465e104771b91263d0a83a3e (patch)
treecae7c78881f798c1e9fb48e07c6692ac95f679d5 /Documentation
parent63ef108c5227fe6ee01012364afef1e951375ef4 (diff)
zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
Compaction returns back to zram the number of migrated objects, which is quite uninformative -- we have objects of different sizes so user space cannot obtain any valuable data from that number. Change compaction to operate in terms of pages and return back to compaction issuer the number of pages that were freed during compaction. So from now on we will export more meaningful value in zram<id>/mm_stat -- the number of freed (compacted) pages. This requires: (a) a rename of `num_migrated' to 'pages_compacted' (b) a internal API change -- return first_page's fullness_group from putback_zspage(), so we know when putback_zspage() did free_zspage(). It helps us to account compaction stats correctly. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index c4de57609..62435bb25 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ mem_used_max RW the maximum amount memory zram have consumed to
store compressed data
mem_limit RW the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use to store
the compressed data
-num_migrated RO the number of objects migrated migrated by compaction
+pages_compacted RO the number of pages freed during compaction
+ (available only via zram<id>/mm_stat node)
compact WO trigger memory compaction
WARNING