RE: [PATCHv6 4/8] zswap: add to mm/

From: Dan Magenheimer
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 14:52:23 EST


> From: Dan Magenheimer
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 11:13 AM
> To: Seth Jennings; Andrew Morton
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman; Nitin Gupta; Minchan Kim; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Dan Magenheimer; Robert
> Jennings; Jenifer Hopper; Mel Gorman; Johannes Weiner; Rik van Riel; Larry Woodman; Benjamin
> Herrenschmidt; Dave Hansen; Joe Perches; Joonsoo Kim; Cody P Schafer; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [PATCHv6 4/8] zswap: add to mm/
>
> > From: Seth Jennings [mailto:sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Subject: [PATCHv6 4/8] zswap: add to mm/
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Maximum compression ratio, as as percentage, for an acceptable
> > + * compressed page. Any pages that do not compress by at least
> > + * this ratio will be rejected.
> > +*/
> > +static unsigned int zswap_max_compression_ratio = 80;
> > +module_param_named(max_compression_ratio,
> > + zswap_max_compression_ratio, uint, 0644);
>
> Unless this is a complete coincidence, I believe that
> the default value "80" is actually:
>
> (100 * (1L >> ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER)) /
> ((1L >> ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER)) + 1)

Doh! If it wasn't obvious, those should be left
shift operators, not right shift. So....

(100 * (1L << ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER)) /
((1L << ZS_MAX_ZSPAGE_ORDER)) + 1)

Sorry for that.
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