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authorSeth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-07-11 03:04:55 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-11 05:11:34 +0400
commit4e2e2770b1529edc5849c86b29a6febe27e2f083 (patch)
tree0f74fa76b95f3e61c25d07af31ff110eacb9e777 /mm/Kconfig
parentbfffbea1aaeeb1eb6500c83ff9653416daa5b490 (diff)
downloadlinux-4e2e2770b1529edc5849c86b29a6febe27e2f083.tar.xz
zbud: add to mm/
zbud is an special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher density approach when reclaim will be used. zbud works by storing compressed pages, or "zpages", together in pairs in a single memory page called a "zbud page". The first buddy is "left justifed" at the beginning of the zbud page, and the last buddy is "right justified" at the end of the zbud page. The benefit is that if either buddy is freed, the freed buddy space, coalesced with whatever slack space that existed between the buddies, results in the largest possible free region within the zbud page. zbud also provides an attractive lower bound on density. The ratio of zpages to zbud pages can not be less than 1. This ensures that zbud can never "do harm" by using more pages to store zpages than the uncompressed zpages would have used on their own. This implementation is a rewrite of the zbud allocator internally used by zcache in the driver/staging tree. The rewrite was necessary to remove some of the zcache specific elements that were ingrained throughout and provide a generic allocation interface that can later be used by zsmalloc and others. This patch adds zbud to mm/ for later use by zswap. Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jenifer Hopper <jhopper@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
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@@ -478,6 +478,16 @@ config FRONTSWAP
If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap.
+config ZBUD
+ tristate
+ default n
+ help
+ A special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages.
+ It is designed to store up to two compressed pages per physical
+ page. While this design limits storage density, it has simple and
+ deterministic reclaim properties that make it preferable to a higher
+ density approach when reclaim will be used.
+
config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
bool "Track memory changes"
depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY