zram: Compressed RAM based block devices ---------------------------------------- * Introduction The zram module creates RAM based block devices named /dev/zram<id> (<id> = 0, 1, ...). Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings. Some of the usecases include /tmp storage, use as swap disks, various caches under /var and maybe many more :) Statistics for individual zram devices are exported through sysfs nodes at /sys/block/zram<id>/ Kconfig required: CONFIG_ZRAM=y CONFIG_CRYPTO_LZ4=y CONFIG_ZPOOL=y CONFIG_ZSMALLOC=y ZRAM Testcases -------------- zram_lib.sh: create library with initialization/cleanup functions zram.sh: For sanity check of CONFIG_ZRAM and to run zram01 and zram02 Two functional tests: zram01 and zram02: zram01.sh: creates general purpose ram disks with ext4 filesystems zram02.sh: creates block device for swap Commands required for testing: - bc - dd - free - awk - mkswap - swapon - swapoff - mkfs/ mkfs.ext4 For more information please refer: kernel-source-tree/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt acket-loop-back</option> <option value='packet-rx-pump-back'>packet-rx-pump-back</option> </select> <input type='submit' value='switch'/></form></td></tr> <tr><td class='sub'>net-next plumbings</td><td class='sub right'>Tobias Klauser</td></tr></table> <table class='tabs'><tr><td> <a href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/'>summary</a><a href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/refs/?id=6989606a7224a2d5a925df22a49e4f7a0bfed0d6'>refs</a><a href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/log/'>log</a><a class='active' href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/tree/?id=6989606a7224a2d5a925df22a49e4f7a0bfed0d6'>tree</a><a href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/commit/?id=6989606a7224a2d5a925df22a49e4f7a0bfed0d6'>commit</a><a href='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/diff/?id=6989606a7224a2d5a925df22a49e4f7a0bfed0d6'>diff</a></td><td class='form'><form class='right' method='get' action='/cgit.cgi/linux/net-next.git/log/'> <input type='hidden' name='id' value='6989606a7224a2d5a925df22a49e4f7a0bfed0d6'/><select name='qt'> <option value='grep'>log msg</option> <option value='author'>author</option> <option value='committer'>committer</option> <option value='range'>range</option> </select> <input class='txt' type='search' size='10' name='q' value=''/> <input type='submit' value='search'/> </form> </td></tr></table> <div class='content'><table summary='tree listing' class='list'> <tr class='nohover'><th class='left'>Mode</th><th class='left'>Name</th><th class='right'>Size</th><th/></tr>