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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:17:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:17:52 +0000 |
| commit | 3afb00d3f86d3d924f88b56fa8285d4e9db85852 (patch) | |
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| parent | Adding debian version 6.9.12-1. (diff) | |
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Merging upstream version 6.10.3.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst index 13632671ad..3598dcd7db 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst @@ -111,35 +111,6 @@ checked if it is a same-value filled page before compressing it. If true, the compressed length of the page is set to zero and the pattern or same-filled value is stored. -Same-value filled pages identification feature is enabled by default and can be -disabled at boot time by setting the ``same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute -to 0, e.g. ``zswap.same_filled_pages_enabled=0``. It can also be enabled and -disabled at runtime using the sysfs ``same_filled_pages_enabled`` -attribute, e.g.:: - - echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/same_filled_pages_enabled - -When zswap same-filled page identification is disabled at runtime, it will stop -checking for the same-value filled pages during store operation. -In other words, every page will be then considered non-same-value filled. -However, the existing pages which are marked as same-value filled pages remain -stored unchanged in zswap until they are either loaded or invalidated. - -In some circumstances it might be advantageous to make use of just the zswap -ability to efficiently store same-filled pages without enabling the whole -compressed page storage. -In this case the handling of non-same-value pages by zswap (enabled by default) -can be disabled by setting the ``non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute -to 0, e.g. ``zswap.non_same_filled_pages_enabled=0``. -It can also be enabled and disabled at runtime using the sysfs -``non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` attribute, e.g.:: - - echo 1 > /sys/module/zswap/parameters/non_same_filled_pages_enabled - -Disabling both ``zswap.same_filled_pages_enabled`` and -``zswap.non_same_filled_pages_enabled`` effectively disables accepting any new -pages by zswap. - To prevent zswap from shrinking pool when zswap is full and there's a high pressure on swap (this will result in flipping pages in and out zswap pool without any real benefit but with a performance drop for the system), a |