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| author | Dan Magenheimer | 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -0600 |
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| committer | Dan Magenheimer | 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -0600 |
| commit | 5bc20fc59706214d9591c11e1938a629d3538c12 (patch) | |
| tree | ebfb66428ce888560dd982d3ca313f039a53ae40 /include/xen | |
| parent | 1cfd8bd0f97ae3ad314151cd0fd70454d7b39699 (diff) | |
xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache
API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent
Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem).
Xen tmem provides "hypervisor RAM" as an ephemeral page-oriented
pseudo-RAM store for cleancache pages, shared cleancache pages,
and frontswap pages. Tmem provides enterprise-quality concurrency,
full save/restore and live migration support, compression
and deduplication.
A presentation showing up to 8% faster performance and up to 52%
reduction in sectors read on a kernel compile workload, despite
aggressive in-kernel page reclamation ("self-ballooning") can be
found at:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/presentations/TranscendentMemoryXenSummit2010.pdf
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/xen')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/xen/interface/xen.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/xen/interface/xen.h b/include/xen/interface/xen.h index b33257bc7e83..70213b4515eb 100644 --- a/include/xen/interface/xen.h +++ b/include/xen/interface/xen.h @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ #define __HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op 32 #define __HYPERVISOR_physdev_op 33 #define __HYPERVISOR_hvm_op 34 +#define __HYPERVISOR_tmem_op 38 /* Architecture-specific hypercall definitions. */ #define __HYPERVISOR_arch_0 48 @@ -461,6 +462,27 @@ typedef uint8_t xen_domain_handle_t[16]; #define __mk_unsigned_long(x) x ## UL #define mk_unsigned_long(x) __mk_unsigned_long(x) +#define TMEM_SPEC_VERSION 1 + +struct tmem_op { + uint32_t cmd; + int32_t pool_id; + union { + struct { /* for cmd == TMEM_NEW_POOL */ + uint64_t uuid[2]; + uint32_t flags; + } new; + struct { + uint64_t oid[3]; + uint32_t index; + uint32_t tmem_offset; + uint32_t pfn_offset; + uint32_t len; + GUEST_HANDLE(void) gmfn; /* guest machine page frame */ + } gen; + } u; +}; + #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ /* In assembly code we cannot use C numeric constant suffixes. */ |