From: krichel@openlib.org (Thomas Krichel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: zswap compressors
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:35:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131126153548.GA23389@openlib.org> (raw)
Hi,
I have two issues with zswap.
I am running 3.11.0-13-generic #20~precise2-Ubuntu. The zswap doc
says that I can run a custom compessor and suggests, as an example
in the doc to use, for example, zswap.compressor=deflate as a kernel
option. But when I do that dmesg says "zswap: deflate compressor not
available" and send me back to the default lzo compressor. Trying
lz4 gets the same note. Is this a bug or a feature, and where should
this be reported to?
I wonder why the default compressor is lzo. I understand that,
roughly, lz4 would achieve roughly the same compression and takes
roughly the same effort to compress, but decompresses much
faster. If my understanding is correct, a compressed page is likely
to be decompressed several times while it stays in the pool. I
therefore suspect that lz4 it would be a better compressor for zswap
than lzo. Am I way off base here?
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Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel
skype:thomaskrichel
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