linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1/4] tmem: infrastructure for tmem layer

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:35:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
To:	dan.magenheimer@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, npiggin@...e.de,
	chris.mason@...cle.com, kurt.hackel@...cle.com,
	dave.mccracken@...cle.com, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	jeremy@...p.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	tmem-devel@....oracle.com, sunil.mushran@...cle.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/4] tmem: infrastructure for tmem layer

--- linux-2.6.30/mm/Kconfig	2009-06-09 21:05:27.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.30-tmem/mm/Kconfig	2009-06-19 09:36:41.000000000 -0600
@@ -253,3 +253,30 @@
 	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
 
 	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
+
+#
+# support for transcendent memory
+#
+config TMEM
+	bool "Transcendent memory support"
+	depends on XEN # but in future may work without XEN
+	help
+	  In a virtualized environment, allows unused and underutilized
+	  system physical memory to be made accessible through a narrow
+	  well-defined page-copy-based API.  If unsure, say Y.
+
+config PRECACHE
+	bool "Cache clean pages in transcendent memory"
+	depends on TMEM
+	help
+	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used to store clean
+	  page-cache pages which, under some circumstances, will greatly
+	  reduce paging and thus improve performance.  If unsure, say Y.
+
+config PRESWAP
+	bool "Swap pages to transcendent memory"
+	depends on TMEM
+	help
+	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used as a pseudo-swap
+	  device which, under some circumstances, will greatly reduce
+	  swapping and thus improve performance.  If unsure, say Y.
--- linux-2.6.30/mm/Makefile	2009-06-09 21:05:27.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.30-tmem/mm/Makefile	2009-06-19 09:33:59.000000000 -0600
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR) += pagewalk.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE)	+= bounce.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)	+= page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PRESWAP)	+= preswap.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PRECACHE)	+= precache.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)	+= dmapool.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)	+= hugetlb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) 	+= mempolicy.o
--- linux-2.6.30/include/linux/tmem.h	1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.30-tmem/include/linux/tmem.h	2009-06-19 11:21:58.000000000 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/*
+ * linux/tmem.h
+ *
+ * Interface to transcendent memory, used by mm/precache.c and mm/preswap.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008,2009 Dan Magenheimer, Oracle Corp.
+ */
+
+struct tmem_ops {
+	int (*new_pool)(u64 uuid_lo, u64 uuid_hi, u32 flags);
+	int (*put_page)(u32 pool_id, u64 object, u32 index, unsigned long gmfn);
+	int (*get_page)(u32 pool_id, u64 object, u32 index, unsigned long gmfn);
+	int (*flush_page)(u32 pool_id, u64 object, u32 index);
+	int (*flush_object)(u32 pool_id, u64 object);
+	int (*destroy_pool)(u32 pool_id);
+};
+
+extern struct tmem_ops *tmem_ops;
+
+/* flags for tmem_ops.new_pool */
+#define TMEM_POOL_PERSIST          1
+#define TMEM_POOL_SHARED           2
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