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| author | Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> | 2015-06-25 15:00:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-25 17:00:36 -0700 |
| commit | c3cdb40e66344553898daa3ccd068c03173a3f42 (patch) | |
| tree | 53fd5157d5958c12a36969b73c298c6ebbeabdd6 /Documentation/blockdev | |
| parent | 522698d7cadb5d208429c934f673713b7a42e925 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-c3cdb40e66344553898daa3ccd068c03173a3f42.tar.gz lwn-c3cdb40e66344553898daa3ccd068c03173a3f42.zip | |
zram: remove max_num_devices limitation
Limiting the number of zram devices to 32 (default max_num_devices value)
is confusing, let's drop it. A user with 2TB or 4TB of RAM, for example,
can request as many devices as he can handle.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/blockdev')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt index bef499868269..65e94301e57b 100644 --- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt +++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ Following shows a typical sequence of steps for using zram. 1) Load Module: modprobe zram num_devices=4 This creates 4 devices: /dev/zram{0,1,2,3} - (num_devices parameter is optional. Default: 1) + +num_devices parameter is optional and tells zram how many devices should be +pre-created. Default: 1. 2) Set max number of compression streams Compression backend may use up to max_comp_streams compression streams, |