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Message-ID: <20181129022358.GA6379@jagdpanzerIV>
Date:   Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:23:58 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] zram: writeback throttle

On (11/27/18 14:54), Minchan Kim wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> index 65fc33b2f53b..9d2339a485c8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
> @@ -121,3 +121,12 @@ Contact:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
>  		The bd_stat file is read-only and represents backing device's
>  		statistics (bd_count, bd_reads, bd_writes) in a format
>  		similar to block layer statistics file format.
> +
> +What:		/sys/block/zram<id>/writeback_limit
> +Date:		November 2018
> +Contact:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> +Description:
> +		The writeback_limit file is read-write and specifies the maximum
> +		amount of writeback ZRAM can do. The limit could be changed
> +		in run time and "0" means disable the limit.
> +		No limit is the initial state.
> diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> index 906df97527a7..64b61925e475 100644
> --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
> @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ reset             WO    trigger device reset
>  mem_used_max      WO    reset the `mem_used_max' counter (see later)
>  mem_limit         WO    specifies the maximum amount of memory ZRAM can use
>                          to store the compressed data
> +writeback_limit   WO    specifies the maximum amount of write IO zram can
> +			write out to backing device as 4KB unit
						       ^^^^
						page size units?

	-ss

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