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@@ -466,6 +466,11 @@ of equal or greater size:::
#recompress idle pages larger than 2000 bytes
echo "type=idle threshold=2000" > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+It is also possible to limit the number of pages zram re-compression will
+attempt to recompress:::
+
+ echo "type=huge_idle max_pages=42" > /sys/block/zramX/recompress
+
Recompression of idle pages requires memory tracking.
During re-compression for every page, that matches re-compression criteria,