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    zram: add a huge_idle writeback mode · 30226b69
    Brian Geffon authored
    Today it's only possible to write back as a page, idle, or huge.  A user
    might want to writeback pages which are huge and idle first as these idle
    pages do not require decompression and make a good first pass for
    writeback.
    
    Idle writeback specifically has the advantage that a refault is unlikely
    given that the page has been swapped for some amount of time without being
    refaulted.
    
    Huge writeback has the advantage that you're guaranteed to get the maximum
    benefit from a single page writeback, that is, you're reclaiming one full
    page of memory.  Pages which are compressed in zram being written back
    result in some benefit which is always less than a page size because of
    the fact that it was compressed.
    
    The primary use of this is for minimizing refaults in situations where the
    device has to be sensitive to storage endurance.  On ChromeOS we have
    devices with slow eMMC and repeated writes and refaults can negatively
    affect performance and endurance.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220322215821.1196994-1-bgeffon@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarBrian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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