From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCHv3 8/8] zram: move zram size warning to documentation
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:12:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389877936-15543-9-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1389877936-15543-1-git-send-email-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Move zram warning about disksize and size of memory correlation
to zram documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 5 +++++
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 15 ---------------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 2eccddf..393541be 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram.
echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
+Note:
+There is little point creating a zram of greater than twice the size of memory
+since we expect a 2:1 compression ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1% of the
+size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
+
3) Activate:
mkswap /dev/zram0
swapon /dev/zram0
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index 9d67fbf..5ec61be 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -535,23 +535,8 @@ static void zram_reset_device(struct zram *zram, bool reset_capacity)
static void zram_init_device(struct zram *zram, struct zram_meta *meta)
{
- if (zram->disksize > 2 * (totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT)) {
- pr_info(
- "There is little point creating a zram of greater than "
- "twice the size of memory since we expect a 2:1 compression "
- "ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1%% of the size of "
- "the disk when not in use so a huge zram is "
- "wasteful.\n"
- "\tMemory Size: %lu kB\n"
- "\tSize you selected: %llu kB\n"
- "Continuing anyway ...\n",
- (totalram_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) >> 10, zram->disksize >> 10
- );
- }
-
/* zram devices sort of resembles non-rotational disks */
queue_flag_set_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, zram->disk->queue);
-
zram->meta = meta;
pr_debug("Initialization done!\n");
}
--
1.8.5.3.493.gb139ac2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 13:12 [PATCHv3 0/8] zram stats rework and code cleanup Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 1/8] zram: drop `init_done' struct zram member Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 2/8] zram: do not pass rw argument to __zram_make_request() Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 3/8] zram: remove good and bad compress stats Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:44 ` Jerome Marchand
2014-01-17 6:48 ` Minchan Kim
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 4/8] zram: use atomic64_t for all zram stats Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:58 ` Jerome Marchand
2014-01-17 6:54 ` Minchan Kim
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 5/8] zram: remove zram stats code duplication Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-17 6:54 ` Minchan Kim
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 6/8] zram: report failed read and write stats Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-02-04 22:18 ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-05 9:52 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:12 ` [PATCHv3 7/8] zram: drop not used table `count' member Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-16 13:52 ` Jerome Marchand
2014-01-16 14:17 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2014-01-17 7:03 ` Minchan Kim
2014-01-16 13:12 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2014-01-17 7:08 ` [PATCHv3 8/8] zram: move zram size warning to documentation Minchan Kim
2014-01-17 7:09 ` [PATCHv3 0/8] zram stats rework and code cleanup Minchan Kim
2014-01-20 4:42 ` Minchan Kim
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