{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.zramSwap;
# don't set swapDevices as mkDefault, so we can detect user had read our warning
# (see below) and made an action (or not)
devicesCount = if cfg.swapDevices != null then cfg.swapDevices else cfg.numDevices;
devices = map (nr: "zram${toString nr}") (range 0 (devicesCount - 1));
modprobe = "${pkgs.kmod}/bin/modprobe";
warnings =
assert cfg.swapDevices != null -> cfg.numDevices >= cfg.swapDevices;
flatten [
(optional (cfg.numDevices > 1 && cfg.swapDevices == null) ''
Using several small zram devices as swap is no better than using one large.
Set either zramSwap.numDevices = 1 or explicitly set zramSwap.swapDevices.
Previously multiple zram devices were used to enable multithreaded
compression. Linux supports multithreaded compression for 1 device
since 3.15. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/28/404 for details.
'')
];
in
{
###### interface
options = {
zramSwap = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Enable in-memory compressed devices and swap space provided by the zram
kernel module.
See
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt
.
'';
};
numDevices = mkOption {
default = 1;
type = types.int;
description = ''
Number of zram devices to create. See also
zramSwap.swapDevices
'';
};
swapDevices = mkOption {
default = null;
example = 1;
type = with types; nullOr int;
description = ''
Number of zram devices to be used as swap. Must be
<= zramSwap.numDevices.
Default is same as zramSwap.numDevices, recommended is 1.
'';
};
memoryPercent = mkOption {
default = 50;
type = types.int;
description = ''
Maximum amount of memory that can be used by the zram swap devices
(as a percentage of your total memory). Defaults to 1/2 of your total
RAM. Run zramctl to check how good memory is
compressed.
'';
};
priority = mkOption {
default = 5;
type = types.int;
description = ''
Priority of the zram swap devices. It should be a number higher than
the priority of your disk-based swap devices (so that the system will
fill the zram swap devices before falling back to disk swap).
'';
};
algorithm = mkOption {
default = "zstd";
example = "lzo";
type = with types; either (enum [ "lzo" "lz4" "zstd" ]) str;
description = ''
Compression algorithm. lzo has good compression,
but is slow. lz4 has bad compression, but is fast.
zstd is both good compression and fast.
You can check what other algorithms are supported by your zram device with
cat /sys/class/block/zram*/comp_algorithm
'';
};
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
inherit warnings;
system.requiredKernelConfig = with config.lib.kernelConfig; [
(isModule "ZRAM")
];
# Disabling this for the moment, as it would create and mkswap devices twice,
# once in stage 2 boot, and again when the zram-reloader service starts.
# boot.kernelModules = [ "zram" ];
boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
options zram num_devices=${toString cfg.numDevices}
'';
services.udev.extraRules = ''
KERNEL=="zram[0-9]*", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="zram-init-%k.service", TAG+="systemd"
'';
systemd.services =
let
createZramInitService = dev:
nameValuePair "zram-init-${dev}" {
description = "Init swap on zram-based device ${dev}";
after = [ "dev-${dev}.device" "zram-reloader.service" ];
requires = [ "dev-${dev}.device" "zram-reloader.service" ];
before = [ "dev-${dev}.swap" ];
requiredBy = [ "dev-${dev}.swap" ];
unitConfig.DefaultDependencies = false; # needed to prevent a cycle
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
ExecStop = "${pkgs.runtimeShell} -c 'echo 1 > /sys/class/block/${dev}/reset'";
};
script = ''
set -euo pipefail
# Calculate memory to use for zram
mem=$(${pkgs.gawk}/bin/awk '/MemTotal: / {
print int($2*${toString cfg.memoryPercent}/100.0/${toString devicesCount}*1024)
}' /proc/meminfo)
${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/zramctl --size $mem --algorithm ${cfg.algorithm} /dev/${dev}
${pkgs.utillinux}/sbin/mkswap /dev/${dev}
'';
restartIfChanged = false;
};
in listToAttrs ((map createZramInitService devices) ++ [(nameValuePair "zram-reloader"
{
description = "Reload zram kernel module when number of devices changes";
wants = [ "systemd-udevd.service" ];
after = [ "systemd-udevd.service" ];
unitConfig.DefaultDependencies = false; # needed to prevent a cycle
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
ExecStartPre = "${modprobe} -r zram";
ExecStart = "${modprobe} zram";
ExecStop = "${modprobe} -r zram";
};
restartTriggers = [
cfg.numDevices
cfg.algorithm
cfg.memoryPercent
];
restartIfChanged = true;
})]);
swapDevices =
let
useZramSwap = dev:
{
device = "/dev/${dev}";
priority = cfg.priority;
};
in map useZramSwap devices;
};
}