Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] zram: zram memory size limitation

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 00:51:28 EST


Hey Sergey,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 08:09:27PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (08/25/14 09:05), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Since zram has no control feature to limit memory usage,
> > it makes hard to manage system memrory.
> >
> > This patch adds new knob "mem_limit" via sysfs to set up the
> > a limit so that zram could fail allocation once it reaches
> > the limit.
> >
> > In addition, user could change the limit in runtime so that
> > he could manage the memory more dynamically.
> >
> > Initial state is no limit so it doesn't break old behavior.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 10 ++++++++
> > Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++---
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++++
> > 4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> > index 70ec992514d0..dbe643775ec1 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> > @@ -119,3 +119,13 @@ Description:
> > efficiency can be calculated using compr_data_size and this
> > statistic.
> > Unit: bytes
> > +
> > +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/mem_limit
> > +Date: August 2014
> > +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > +Description:
> > + The mem_limit file is read/write and specifies the amount
> > + of memory to be able to consume memory to store store
> > + compressed data. The limit could be changed in run time
> > + and "0" means disable the limit. No limit is the initial state.
>
> just a nitpick, sorry.
> "the amount of memory to be able to consume memory to store store compressed data"
> ^^^^^^^
>
> "the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use to store the compressed data"?

Will fix.
Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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