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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] zsmalloc: small compaction improvements
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 18:45:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436607932-7116-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello,

First two patches introduce new zsmalloc zs_pages_to_compact()
symbol and change zram's `compact' sysfs attribute to be
read-write:
-- write triggers compaction, no changes
-- read returns the number of pages that compaction can
   potentially free

This lets user space to make a bit better decisions and to
avoid unneeded (which will not result in any significant
memory savings) compaction calls:

Example:

      if [ `cat /sys/block/zram<id>/compact` -gt 10 ]; then
          echo 1 > /sys/block/zram<id>/compact;
      fi

Up until now user space could not tell whether compaction
will result in any gain.

The third patch removes class locking around zs_can_compact()
in zs_pages_to_compact(), the motivation and details are
provided in the commit message.

Sergey Senozhatsky (3):
  zsmalloc: factor out zs_pages_to_compact()
  zram: make compact a read-write sysfs node
  zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_pages_to_compact()

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram |  7 +++---
 Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt            |  4 +++-
 drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c              | 16 ++++++++++++-
 include/linux/zsmalloc.h                   |  1 +
 mm/zsmalloc.c                              | 37 +++++++++++++++++-------------
 5 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

-- 
2.4.5


             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-11  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-11  9:45 Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2015-07-11  9:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] zsmalloc: factor out zs_pages_to_compact() Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-11  9:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] zram: make compact a read-write sysfs node Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-11  9:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_pages_to_compact() Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-15  4:07   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-15 23:38     ` Minchan Kim
2015-07-15 23:59       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-13 23:36 ` [PATCH 0/3] zsmalloc: small compaction improvements Minchan Kim
2015-07-14  0:31   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-14  0:55     ` Minchan Kim
2015-07-14 12:29       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-14 16:52         ` Minchan Kim
2015-07-15  0:21           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-07-15  0:24             ` Minchan Kim
2015-07-15 11:16               ` Sergey Senozhatsky

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