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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst index d8d9fa4a1f0d..8edb8d578caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/zswap.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Overview Zswap is a lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. zswap basically trades CPU cycles -for potentially reduced swap I/O. This trade-off can also result in a +for potentially reduced swap I/O. This trade-off can also result in a significant performance improvement if reads from the compressed cache are faster than reads from a swap device. @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ faster than reads from a swap device. performance impact of swapping. * Overcommitted guests that share a common I/O resource can dramatically reduce their swap I/O pressure, avoiding heavy handed I/O - throttling by the hypervisor. This allows more work to get done with less + throttling by the hypervisor. This allows more work to get done with less impact to the guest workload and guests sharing the I/O subsystem * Users with SSDs as swap devices can extend the life of the device by drastically reducing life-shortening writes. |