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>
pages_to_unuse is set to 0 to unuse all frontswap pages
But that doesn't happen since a wrong condition in frontswap_shrink
cancel it.
-v2: Add comment to explain return value of __frontswap_shrink,
as suggested by Dan Carpenter, thanks
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fixes uninitialized variable warning on 'type' in frontswap_shrink().
type is set before use by __frontswap_unuse_pages() called by
__frontswap_shrink() called by frontswap_shrink() before use by
try_to_unuse().
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The check whether frontswap is enabled or not is done in the API functions in
the frontswap header, before they are passed to the internal
double-underscored frontswap functions.
Remove the check from __frontswap_init for consistency.
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Currently it has a complex structure where different things are compared
at each branch. Simplify that and make both branches look similar.
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Split frontswap_shrink to simplify the locking in the original code.
Also, assert that the function that was split still runs under the
swap spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
An attempt at making frontswap_shrink shorter and more readable. This patch
splits out walking through the swap list to find an entry with enough
pages to unuse.
Also, assert that the internal __frontswap_unuse_pages is called under swap
lock, since that part of code was previously directly happen inside the lock.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Code was duplicated in two functions, clean it up.
Also, assert that the deduplicated code runs under the swap spinlock.
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This patch, 3of4, provides the core frontswap code that interfaces between
the hooks in the swap subsystem and a frontswap backend via frontswap_ops.
---
New file added: mm/frontswap.c
[v14: add support for writethrough, per suggestion by aarcange@redhat.com]
[v11: sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: s/puts/failed_puts/]
[v10: sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix debugfs calls on 32-bit]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: change "flush" to "invalidate", part 1]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: mark some statics __read_mostly]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: add clarifying comments]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: no need to loop repeating try_to_unuse]
[v9: error27@gmail.com: remove superfluous check for NULL]
[v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4]
[v8: kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: add comment to clarify find_next_to_unuse]
[v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
[v7: JBeulich@novell.com: use new static inlines, no-ops if not config'd]
[v6: rebase to 3.1-rc1]
[v6: lliubbo@gmail.com: use vzalloc]
[v6: lliubbo@gmail.com: fix null pointer deref if vzalloc fails]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracl.com: various checks and code clarifications/comments]
[v4: rebase to 2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v12: Squashed s/flush/invalidate/ in]
[v15: A bit of cleanup and seperate DEBUGFS]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
