kernel_optimize_test/drivers/block/zram/Kconfig
Sergey Senozhatsky 6e76668e41 zram: add lz4 algorithm backend
Introduce LZ4 compression backend and make it available for selection.
LZ4 support is optional and requires user to set ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS config
option.  The default compression backend is LZO.

TEST

(x86_64, core i5, 2 cores + 2 hyperthreading, zram disk size 1G,
ext4 file system, 3 compression streams)

iozone -t 3 -R -r 16K -s 60M -I +Z

       Test           LZO           LZ4
----------------------------------------------
  Initial write   1642744.62    1317005.09
        Rewrite   2498980.88    1800645.16
           Read   3957026.38    5877043.75
        Re-read   3950997.38    5861847.00
   Reverse Read   2937114.56    5047384.00
    Stride read   2948163.19    4929587.38
    Random read   3292692.69    4880793.62
 Mixed workload   1545602.62    3502940.38
   Random write   2448039.75    1758786.25
         Pwrite   1670051.03    1338329.69
          Pread   2530682.00    5097177.62
         Fwrite   3232085.62    3275942.56
          Fread   6306880.25    6645271.12

So on my system LZ4 is slower in write-only tests, while it performs
better in read-only and mixed (reads + writes) tests.

Official LZ4 benchmarks available here http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
(linux kernel uses revision r90).

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:01 -07:00

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config ZRAM
tristate "Compressed RAM block device support"
depends on BLOCK && SYSFS && ZSMALLOC
select LZO_COMPRESS
select LZO_DECOMPRESS
default n
help
Creates virtual block devices called /dev/zramX (X = 0, 1, ...).
Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory
itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides
good amounts of memory savings.
It has several use cases, for example: /tmp storage, use as swap
disks and maybe many more.
See zram.txt for more information.
config ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS
bool "Enable LZ4 algorithm support"
depends on ZRAM
select LZ4_COMPRESS
select LZ4_DECOMPRESS
default n
help
This option enables LZ4 compression algorithm support. Compression
algorithm can be changed using `comp_algorithm' device attribute.
config ZRAM_DEBUG
bool "Compressed RAM block device debug support"
depends on ZRAM
default n
help
This option adds additional debugging code to the compressed
RAM block device driver.