linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/4] mm:swap: introduce SWP_SYNCHRONOUS

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:10:00 +0900
From:   Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     kernel-team <kernel-team@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm:swap: introduce SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO

If rw-page based fast storage is used for swap devices, we need to
detect it to enhance swap IO operations.
This patch is preparation for optimizing of swap-in operation with
next patch.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/swap.h | 3 ++-
 mm/swapfile.c        | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 8a807292037f..fbb33919d1c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -170,8 +170,9 @@ enum {
 	SWP_AREA_DISCARD = (1 << 8),	/* single-time swap area discards */
 	SWP_PAGE_DISCARD = (1 << 9),	/* freed swap page-cluster discards */
 	SWP_STABLE_WRITES = (1 << 10),	/* no overwrite PG_writeback pages */
+	SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO = (1 << 11),	/* synchronous IO is efficient */
 					/* add others here before... */
-	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 11),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
+	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 12),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
 };
 
 #define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index bf91dc9e7a79..1305591cde4d 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3168,6 +3168,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
 	if (bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(inode_to_bdi(inode)))
 		p->flags |= SWP_STABLE_WRITES;
 
+	if (bdi_cap_synchronous_io(inode_to_bdi(inode)))
+		p->flags |= SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO;
+
 	if (p->bdev && blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(p->bdev))) {
 		int cpu;
 		unsigned long ci, nr_cluster;
-- 
2.7.4