notify_free device attribute accounts the number of slot free notifications
and internally represents the number of zram_free_page() calls. Slot free
notifications are sent only when device is used as a swap device, hence
notify_free is used only for swap devices. Since f4659d8e620d08 (zram:
support REQ_DISCARD) ZRAM handles yet another one free notification (also
via zram_free_page() call) -- REQ_DISCARD requests, which are sent by a
filesystem, whenever some data blocks are discarded. However, there is no
way to know the number of notifications in the latter case.
Use notify_free to account the number of pages freed in zram_free_page(),
instead of accounting only swap_slot_free_notify() calls (each
zram_slot_free_notify() call frees one page).
This means that depending on usage scenario notify_free represents:
a) the number of pages freed because of slot free notifications, which is
equal to the number of swap_slot_free_notify() calls, so there is no
behaviour change
b) the number of pages freed because of REQ_DISCARD notifications
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhat...@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram | 13 ++++++++-----
drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
index b13dc99..a6148ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram
@@ -77,11 +77,14 @@ What: /sys/block/zram<id>/notify_free
Date: August 2010
Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngu...@vflare.org>
Description:
- The notify_free file is read-only and specifies the number of
- swap slot free notifications received by this device. These
- notifications are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot
- is freed. This statistic is applicable only when this disk is
- being used as a swap disk.
+ The notify_free file is read-only. Depending on device usage
+ scenario it may account a) the number of pages freed because
+ of swap slot free notifications or b) the number of pages freed
+ because of REQ_DISCARD requests sent by bio. The former ones
+ are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot is freed, which
+ implies that this disk is being used as a swap disk. The latter
+ ones are sent by filesystem mounted with discard option,
+ whenever some data blocks are getting discarded.
What: /sys/block/zram<id>/zero_pages
Date: August 2010
diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
index d78b245..bc20fe1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ static void zram_free_page(struct zram *zram, size_t index)
atomic64_sub(zram_get_obj_size(meta, index),
&zram->stats.compr_data_size);
atomic64_dec(&zram->stats.pages_stored);
+ atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
meta->table[index].handle = 0;
zram_set_obj_size(meta, index, 0);
@@ -938,7 +939,6 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
bit_spin_lock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
zram_free_page(zram, index);
bit_spin_unlock(ZRAM_ACCESS, &meta->table[index].value);
- atomic64_inc(&zram->stats.notify_free);
}
static const struct block_device_operations zram_devops = {
--
2.1.0.134.gb1ae451
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