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Documentation/vm/zswap.txt: fix typos
Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are
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faster than reads from a swap device.
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NOTE: Zswap is a new feature as of v3.11 and interacts heavily with memory
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reclaim. This interaction has not be fully explored on the large set of
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reclaim. This interaction has not been fully explored on the large set of
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potential configurations and workloads that exist. For this reason, zswap
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is a work in progress and should be considered experimental.
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@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Some potential benefits:
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drastically reducing life-shortening writes.
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Zswap evicts pages from compressed cache on an LRU basis to the backing swap
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device when the compressed pool reaches it size limit. This requirement had
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device when the compressed pool reaches its size limit. This requirement had
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been identified in prior community discussions.
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To enabled zswap, the "enabled" attribute must be set to 1 at boot time. e.g.
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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ the backing swap device in the case that the compressed pool is full.
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Zswap makes use of zbud for the managing the compressed memory pool. Each
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allocation in zbud is not directly accessible by address. Rather, a handle is
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return by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
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returned by the allocation routine and that handle must be mapped before being
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accessed. The compressed memory pool grows on demand and shrinks as compressed
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pages are freed. The pool is not preallocated.
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@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ in the swap_map goes to 0) the swap code calls the zswap invalidate function,
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via frontswap, to free the compressed entry.
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Zswap seeks to be simple in its policies. Sysfs attributes allow for one user
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controlled policies:
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controlled policy:
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* max_pool_percent - The maximum percentage of memory that the compressed
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pool can occupy.
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