Re: [PATCH v3] zswap: allow setting default status, compressor and allocator in Kconfig

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat,  9 Nov 2019 00:51:07 +0100 "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The compressed cache for swap pages (zswap) currently needs from 1 to 3
> extra kernel command line parameters in order to make it work: it has to be
> enabled by adding a "zswap.enabled=1" command line parameter and if one
> wants a different compressor or pool allocator than the default lzo / zbud
> combination then these choices also need to be specified on the kernel
> command line in additional parameters.
> 
> Using a different compressor and allocator for zswap is actually pretty
> common as guides often recommend using the lz4 / z3fold pair instead of
> the default one.
> In such case it is also necessary to remember to enable the appropriate
> compression algorithm and pool allocator in the kernel config manually.
> 
> Let's avoid the need for adding these kernel command line parameters and
> automatically pull in the dependencies for the selected compressor
> algorithm and pool allocator by adding an appropriate default switches to
> Kconfig.
> 
> The default values for these options match what the code was using
> previously as its defaults.

Shouldn't there be a Documentation/ update along with this change?