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authorSergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>2022-11-09 20:50:46 +0900
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2022-11-30 15:58:53 -0800
commitb46f9ea3cb351587b2cfc68f7211f7a7cc5b6673 (patch)
treedaf5737bdb1ea5c912e3d308ca2aeefee9037d8a /Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev
parent443dd798062c1549e790539e572cbda4b7a8df30 (diff)
zram: add incompressible writeback
Add support for incompressible pages writeback: echo incompressible > /sys/block/zramX/writeback Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Romanov <[email protected]> Cc: Nhat Pham <[email protected]> Cc: Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
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--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst
@@ -348,8 +348,13 @@ this can be accomplished with::
echo huge_idle > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
+If a user chooses to writeback only incompressible pages (pages that none of
+algorithms can compress) this can be accomplished with::
+
+ echo incompressible > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
+
If an admin wants to write a specific page in zram device to the backing device,
-they could write a page index into the interface.
+they could write a page index into the interface::
echo "page_index=1251" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback