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| author | Dan Magenheimer | 2012-04-09 17:10:34 -0600 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk | 2012-05-15 11:34:03 -0400 |
| commit | 27c6aec214264992603526d47da9dabddf3521b3 (patch) | |
| tree | bd00824e8c8ed78d299945d7af1b9ceb55f5bd28 /mm | |
| parent | 29f233cfffe7fbc6672938117ce7e4154a2f515f (diff) | |
mm: frontswap: config and doc files
This patch 4of4 adds configuration and documentation files including a FAQ.
[v14: updated docs/FAQ to use zcache and RAMster as examples]
[v10: no change]
[v9: akpm@linux-foundation.org: sysfs->debugfs; no longer need Doc/ABI file]
[v8: rebase to 3.0-rc4]
[v7: rebase to 3.0-rc3]
[v6: rebase to 3.0-rc1]
[v5: change config default to n]
[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>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Makefile | 1 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index e338407f1225..2613c910935a 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -379,3 +379,20 @@ config CLEANCACHE in a negligible performance hit. If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache + +config FRONTSWAP + bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" + depends on SWAP + default n + help + Frontswap is so named because it can be thought of as the opposite + of a "backing" store for a swap device. The data is stored into + "transcendent memory", memory that is not directly accessible or + addressable by the kernel and is of unknown and possibly + time-varying size. When space in transcendent memory is available, + a significant swap I/O reduction may be achieved. When none is + available, all frontswap calls are reduced to a single pointer- + compare-against-NULL resulting in a negligible performance hit + and swap data is stored as normal on the matching swap device. + + If unsure, say Y to enable frontswap. diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile index 50ec00ef2a0e..306742a28266 100644 --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK) += memblock.o obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE) += bounce.o obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP) += page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP) += frontswap.o obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA) += dmapool.o obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS) += hugetlb.o obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) += mempolicy.o |