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

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Sun Dec 02 2018 - 21:45:47 EST


On (12/03/18 11:41), Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:30:40AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (12/03/18 08:18), Minchan Kim wrote:
> > >
> > > Per andrew's comment:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/27/156
> > >
> > > I need to fix it to represent 4K always.
> >
> > Aha.
> >
> > Then we need to increase bd_writes PAGE_SIZE/4K times in writeback_store()?
> >
> > wb_count = atomic64_inc_return(&zram->stats.bd_writes);
> > ...
> > if (wb_limit != 0 && wb_count >= wb_limit)
> > zram->stop_writeback = true;
> >
> > bd_wb_limit is in 4K units; but in writeback_store() we alloc a full page
> > and write it to the backing device. So the actual number of written bytes
> > can be larger on systems with page_size > 4K. Right?
>
> Hey Sergey,
>
> I changed interface in recent version v4. I belive it would be more
> straigtforward for user. Could you review it?

Hi Minchan,

Just received v4. Will take a look!

-ss