Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] zram: implement deduplication in zram

From: Joonsoo Kim
Date: Wed Apr 26 2017 - 01:59:05 EST


On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:14:52AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On (04/26/17 09:52), js1304@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [..]
> > ret = scnprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE,
> > - "%8llu %8llu %8llu %8lu %8ld %8llu %8lu\n",
> > + "%8llu %8llu %8llu %8lu %8ld %8llu %8lu %8llu %8llu\n",
> > orig_size << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > (u64)atomic64_read(&zram->stats.compr_data_size),
> > mem_used << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > zram->limit_pages << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > max_used << PAGE_SHIFT,
> > (u64)atomic64_read(&zram->stats.same_pages),
> > - pool_stats.pages_compacted);
> > + pool_stats.pages_compacted,
> > + zram_dedup_dup_size(zram),
> > + zram_dedup_meta_size(zram));
>
> hm... should't we subtract zram_dedup_dup_size(zram) from
> ->stats.compr_data_size? we don't use extra memory for dedupped
> pages. or don't inc ->stats.compr_data_size for dedupped pages?

Hmm... My intention is to keep previous stat as much as possible. User
can just notice the saving by only checking mem_used.

However, it's also odd that compr_data_size doesn't show actual
compressed data size.

Minchan, what do you think about it?

Thanks.