From 1beb8ae302a01fb487787f5a4fb97cf5338a86c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nhat Pham Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 14:00:16 -0800 Subject: Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove zsmalloc's lack of writeback warning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Writeback has been implemented for zsmalloc, so this warning no longer holds. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230106220016.172303-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: 9997bc017549a ("zsmalloc: implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc") Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst index f67de481c7f6..6dd74a18268b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/zswap.rst @@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ e.g. ``zswap.zpool=zbud``. It can also be changed at runtime using the sysfs The zbud type zpool allocates exactly 1 page to store 2 compressed pages, which means the compression ratio will always be 2:1 or worse (because of half-full zbud pages). The zsmalloc type zpool has a more complex compressed page -storage method, and it can achieve greater storage densities. However, -zsmalloc does not implement compressed page eviction, so once zswap fills it -cannot evict the oldest page, it can only reject new pages. +storage method, and it can achieve greater storage densities. When a swap page is passed from frontswap to zswap, zswap maintains a mapping of the swap entry, a combination of the swap type and swap offset, to the zpool -- cgit v1.2.3