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| author | Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> | 2024-09-02 19:55:52 +0900 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-09-09 16:39:07 -0700 |
| commit | 917a59e81c342f47a45be8af7792dae64d317984 (patch) | |
| tree | fa1bea01543fe791b1c5441d86a0afb2a56e1037 /Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev | |
| parent | lib: zstd: fix null-deref in ZSTD_createCDict_advanced2() (diff) | |
| download | linux-917a59e81c342f47a45be8af7792dae64d317984.tar.gz linux-917a59e81c342f47a45be8af7792dae64d317984.zip | |
zram: introduce custom comp backends API
Moving to custom backends implementation gives us ability to have our own
minimalistic and extendable API, and algorithms tunings becomes possible.
The list of compression backends is empty at this point, we will add
backends in the followup patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240902105656.1383858-5-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst index 091e8bb38887..181d55d64326 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.rst @@ -102,15 +102,8 @@ Examples:: #select lzo compression algorithm echo lzo > /sys/block/zram0/comp_algorithm -For the time being, the `comp_algorithm` content does not necessarily -show every compression algorithm supported by the kernel. We keep this -list primarily to simplify device configuration and one can configure -a new device with a compression algorithm that is not listed in -`comp_algorithm`. The thing is that, internally, ZRAM uses Crypto API -and, if some of the algorithms were built as modules, it's impossible -to list all of them using, for instance, /proc/crypto or any other -method. This, however, has an advantage of permitting the usage of -custom crypto compression modules (implementing S/W or H/W compression). +For the time being, the `comp_algorithm` content shows only compression +algorithms that are supported by zram. 4) Set Disksize =============== |