linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory (v2)

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Message-ID: <4BE50D37.7020603@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Sat, 08 May 2010 10:05:27 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	ngupta@...are.org
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Cyp <cyp561@...il.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	driverdev <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory
 (v2)

Nitin Gupta wrote:
> Its not debug code. This ioctl is how we send stats about given ramzswap
> device to userspace: rzscontrol /dev/ramzswap --stats, invokes this ioctl
> and prints the stats. I will add comments to this part to make it clear.

Another option would be sysfs if you want the stats to always be available.
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