zram: move zram size warning to documentation
Move zram warning about disksize and size of memory correlation to zram
documentation.
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>
diff --git a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
index 2eccddf..393541be 100644
--- a/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
+++ b/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
echo 512M > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize
+Note:
+There is little point creating a zram of greater than twice the size of memory
+since we expect a 2:1 compression ratio. Note that zram uses about 0.1% of the
+size of the disk when not in use so a huge zram is wasteful.
+
3) Activate:
mkswap /dev/zram0
swapon /dev/zram0