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| author |   Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-03-21 21:22:44 +0200 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-04-16 14:18:14 -0600 |
| commit | 44bc09eb3ed8d8a1701914f64c294d089f4b6c86 (patch) | |
| tree | 25de4329b7aa317afe2ed099226546ceca5118b9 /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | docs/vm: userfaultfd.txt: convert to ReST format (diff) | |
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docs/vm: z3fold.txt: convert to ReST format
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt b/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt index 38e4dac810b6..224e3c61d686 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ +.. _z3fold: + +====== z3fold ------- +====== z3fold is a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page. @@ -7,6 +10,7 @@ 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 |