Dan Magenheimer e3483a5f3a frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capable ... Tmem, as originally specified, assumes that "get" operations performed on persistent pools never flush the page of data out of tmem on a successful get, waiting instead for a flush operation. This is intended to mimic the model of a swap disk, where a disk read is non-destructive. Unlike a disk, however, freeing up the RAM can be valuable. Over the years that frontswap was in the review process, several reviewers (and notably Hugh Dickins in 2010) pointed out that this would result, at least temporarily, in two copies of the data in RAM: one (compressed for zcache) copy in tmem, and one copy in the swap cache. We wondered if this could be done differently, at least optionally. This patch allows tmem backends to instruct the frontswap code that this backend performs exclusive gets. Zcache2 already contains hooks to support this feature. Other backends are completely unaffected unless/until they are updated to support this feature. While it is not clear that exclusive gets are a performance win on all workloads at all times, this small patch allows for experimentation by backends. P.S. Let's not quibble about the naming of "get" vs "read" vs "load" etc. The naming is currently horribly inconsistent between cleancache and frontswap and existing tmem backends, so will need to be straightened out as a separate patch. "Get" is used by the tmem architecture spec, existing backends, and all documentation and presentation material so I am using it in this patch. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>		2012-09-21 10:38:12 -04:00
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backing-dev.c	mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads	2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
bootmem.c	bootmem: make ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() really nopanic	2012-07-17 16:21:29 -07:00
bounce.c	bounce: allow use of bounce pool via config option	2012-07-18 16:40:35 -04:00
cleancache.c	->encode_fh() API change	2012-05-29 23:28:33 -04:00
compaction.c	mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left	2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c	mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled	2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c	mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c	2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c	mm, fadvise: don't return -EINVAL when filesystem cannot implement fadvise()	2012-07-31 18:42:42 -07:00
failslab.c	switch debugfs to umode_t	2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap_xip.c	fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write	2012-07-31 09:45:47 +04:00
filemap.c	fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write	2012-07-31 09:45:47 +04:00
fremap.c	mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h>	2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
frontswap.c	frontswap: support exclusive gets if tmem backend is capable	2012-09-21 10:38:12 -04:00
highmem.c	mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages	2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
huge_memory.c	mm/memcg: apply add/del_page to lruvec	2012-05-29 16:22:28 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c	hugetlb/cgroup: remove exclude and wakeup rmdir calls from migrate	2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
hugetlb.c	mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables	2012-07-31 18:42:50 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c	memcg: rename config variables	2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
init-mm.c	atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>	2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h	netvm: allow skb allocation to use PFMEMALLOC reserves	2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
Kconfig	mm: factor out memory isolate functions	2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug	mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging	2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c	kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc	2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c	kmemleak: Disable early logging when kmemleak is off by default	2012-01-20 16:57:05 +00:00
ksm.c	ksm: cleanup: introduce find_mergeable_vma()	2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
maccess.c	mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h	2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c	mm: Hold a file reference in madvise_remove	2012-07-06 10:34:38 -07:00
Makefile	mm: factor out memory isolate functions	2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
memblock.c	mm/memblock.c:memblock_double_array(): cosmetic cleanups	2012-07-31 18:42:41 -07:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper	2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mm/hotplug: free zone->pageset when a zone becomes empty	2012-07-31 18:42:44 -07:00
memory-failure.c	memcg: rename config variables	2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
memory.c	Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs	2012-08-01 10:26:23 -07:00
mempolicy.c	Merge branch 'slab/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux	2012-07-30 11:32:24 -07:00
mempool.c	mempool: add @gfp_mask to mempool_create_node()	2012-06-25 11:53:47 +02:00
migrate.c	mm: memcg: fix compaction/migration failing due to memcg limits	2012-07-31 18:42:48 -07:00
mincore.c	mm: thp: fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode	2012-03-21 17:54:54 -07:00
mlock.c	vm: avoid using find_vma_prev() unnecessarily	2012-03-06 18:23:36 -08:00
mm_init.c	mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h	2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c	Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)	2012-07-31 19:25:39 -07:00
mmu_context.c	mm, counters: remove task argument to sync_mm_rss() and __sync_task_rss_stat()	2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c	mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU	2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
mmzone.c	memcg: rename config variables	2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
mprotect.c	Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)	2012-03-22 09:04:48 -07:00
mremap.c	mm: account the total_vm in the vm_stat_account()	2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c	memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later	2012-07-11 16:04:50 -07:00
nommu.c	nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c	2012-06-04 17:17:31 -04:00
oom_kill.c	mm, memcg: move all oom handling to memcontrol.c	2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
page_alloc.c	mm: remove node_start_pfn checking in new WARN_ON for now	2012-08-02 10:37:03 -07:00
page_cgroup.c	memcg: rename config variables	2012-07-31 18:42:43 -07:00
page_io.c	mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages	2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
page_isolation.c	memory-hotplug: fix kswapd looping forever problem	2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
page-writeback.c	writeback: Fix some comment errors	2012-06-09 19:54:47 +08:00
pagewalk.c	mm: fix kernel-doc warnings	2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator	2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c	mm: fix kernel-doc warnings	2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
percpu.c	kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP	2012-05-09 10:13:29 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c	arch/tile: allow building Linux with transparent huge pages enabled	2012-05-25 12:48:21 -04:00
prio_tree.c	sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage	2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c	aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()	2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
quicklist.c	mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h>	2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c	mm: move readahead syscall to mm/readahead.c	2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: remove swap token code	2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
shmem.c	tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes	2012-07-31 18:42:50 -07:00
slab_common.c	mm: Fix build warning in kmem_cache_create()	2012-07-30 13:15:40 +03:00
slab.c	mm: micro-optimise slab to avoid a function call	2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00
slab.h	mm, sl[aou]b: Use a common mutex definition	2012-07-09 12:13:41 +03:00
slob.c	slob: Fix early boot kernel crash	2012-07-12 10:13:22 +03:00
slub.c	mm: slub: optimise the SLUB fast path to avoid pfmemalloc checks	2012-07-31 18:42:45 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h>	2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c	mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock	2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
swap_state.c	mm: add support for a filesystem to activate swap files and use direct_IO for writing swap pages	2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swap.c	mm: add support for direct_IO to highmem pages	2012-07-31 18:42:47 -07:00
swapfile.c	mm: swapfile: clean up unuse_pte race handling	2012-07-31 18:42:48 -07:00
truncate.c	mm/fs: remove truncate_range	2012-05-29 16:22:23 -07:00
util.c	new helper: vm_mmap_pgoff()	2012-06-01 10:37:18 -04:00
vmalloc.c	mm: make vb_alloc() more foolproof	2012-07-31 18:42:39 -07:00
vmscan.c	memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list	2012-07-31 18:42:49 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm: account for the number of times direct reclaimers get throttled	2012-07-31 18:42:46 -07:00