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authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>2022-06-27 08:00:26 +0200
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so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>
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-.. _z3fold:
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-======
-z3fold
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-
-z3fold is a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
-It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page.
-It is a zbud derivative which allows for higher compression
-ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its predecessor.
-
-The main differences between z3fold and zbud are:
-
-* unlike zbud, z3fold allows for up to PAGE_SIZE allocations
-* z3fold can hold up to 3 compressed pages in its page
-* z3fold doesn't export any API itself and is thus intended to be used
- via the zpool API.
-
-To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always
-stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store
-up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the
-compression ratio goes to around 2.7x while zbud's one is around 1.7x.
-
-Unlike zbud (but like zsmalloc for that matter) z3fold_alloc() does not
-return a dereferenceable pointer. Instead, it returns an unsigned long
-handle which encodes actual location of the allocated object.
-
-Keeping effective compression ratio close to zsmalloc's, z3fold doesn't
-depend on MMU enabled and provides more predictable reclaim behavior
-which makes it a better fit for small and response-critical systems.