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linux-next/drivers/xen
Dan Magenheimer a50777c791 xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking
This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory
("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap.  Both
use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization.
Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal
value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean
page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where
Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine.
Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap,
driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when
in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs.

More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c.

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>

[v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap]
[v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments]
[v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization]
[v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap]
[v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls]
[v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero]
[v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits]
[v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1]
[v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as]
[v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes]
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00
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xenbus xen: use freeze/restore/thaw PM events for suspend/resume/chkpt 2011-03-16 13:42:56 -04:00
xenfs Merge branch 'xen/xenbus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-01-20 16:37:28 -08:00
balloon.c xen/balloon: Move dec_totalhigh_pages() from __balloon_append() to balloon_append() 2011-03-30 11:54:51 -04:00
biomerge.c xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE() 2010-10-18 10:40:28 -04:00
cpu_hotplug.c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-12-11 12:18:16 -08:00
events.c Merge branches 'stable/irq', 'stable/p2m.bugfixes', 'stable/e820.bugfixes' and 'stable/mmu.bugfixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-05-19 16:14:58 -07:00
evtchn.c treewide: remove extra semicolons 2011-04-10 17:01:05 +02:00
features.c xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.h 2008-12-16 21:50:31 +01:00
gntalloc.c xen/gntdev,gntalloc: Remove unneeded VM flags 2011-03-09 22:15:28 -05:00
gntdev.c Merge branches 'stable/backend.base.v3' and 'stable/gntalloc.v7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-05-19 16:14:25 -07:00
grant-table.c xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: Support GNTMAP_host_map in the M2P override. 2011-04-18 11:10:27 -04:00
Kconfig xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking 2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00
Makefile xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking 2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00
manage.c PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations 2011-05-11 21:37:15 +02:00
pci.c xen: register xen pci notifier 2010-10-27 18:56:07 +01:00
platform-pci.c xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore 2011-02-25 16:43:03 +00:00
swiotlb-xen.c treewide: remove extra semicolons 2011-04-10 17:01:05 +02:00
sys-hypervisor.c drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor: Cleanup code/data sections definitions 2011-05-19 11:30:41 -04:00
tmem.c xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
xen-balloon.c xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking 2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00
xen-selfballoon.c xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking 2011-07-08 12:26:21 -06:00
xencomm.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00