Re: [PATCH] zram: support a page writeback

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Oct 15 2020 - 20:26:01 EST


On (20/10/12 00:14), Minchan Kim wrote:
>
> With the command, zram writeback idle pages from memory to the storage.
>
> +If admin want to write a specific page in zram device to backing device,
> +they could write the page index into the interface.
> +
> + echo 1251 > /sys/block/zramX/writeback
> +

May be we can make it more explicit?

echo "page_index=123" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback

Just in case of future extensions. E.g. someone might want to
have something like

echo "idle_nr=123" > /sys/block/zramX/writeback

which would write_back 123 idle pages max.

-ss