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.
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200202000112.456103-1-mail@maciej.szmigiero.name
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zswap will always try to shrink pool when zswap is full. If there is a
high pressure on zswap it will result in flipping pages in and out zswap
pool without any real benefit, and the overall system performance will
drop. The previous discussion on this subject [1] ended up with a
suggestion to implement a sort of hysteresis to refuse taking pages into
zswap pool until it has sufficient space if the limit has been hit.
This is my take on this.
Hysteresis is controlled with a sysfs-configurable parameter (namely,
/sys/kernel/debug/zswap/accept_threhsold_percent). It specifies the
threshold at which zswap would start accepting pages again after it
became full. Setting this parameter to 100 disables the hysteresis and
sets the zswap behavior to pre-hysteresis state.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/8/949
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200108200118.15563-1-vitaly.wool@konsulko.com
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Maciej S. Szmigiero
Vitaly Wool
Mike Rapoport