Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] zram: writeback throttle

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Nov 28 2018 - 21:24:06 EST


On (11/27/18 14:54), Minchan Kim wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> index 65fc33b2f53b..9d2339a485c8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> @@ -121,3 +121,12 @@ Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> The bd_stat file is read-only and represents backing device's
> statistics (bd_count, bd_reads, bd_writes) in a format
> similar to block layer statistics file format.
> +
> +What: /sys/block/zram<id>/writeback_limit
> +Date: November 2018
> +Contact: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:
> + The writeback_limit file is read-write and specifies the maximum
> + amount of writeback ZRAM can do. The limit could be changed
> + in run time and "0" means disable the limit.
> + No limit is the initial state.
> diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> index 906df97527a7..64b61925e475 100644
> --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ reset WO trigger device reset
> mem_used_max WO reset the `mem_used_max' counter (see later)
> mem_limit WO specifies the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use
> to store the compressed data
> +writeback_limit WO specifies the maximum amount of write IO zram can
> + write out to backing device as 4KB unit
^^^^
page size units?

-ss