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author | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200 |
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committer | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2013-08-29 00:41:59 +0200 |
commit | bf550fc93d9855872a95e69e4002256110d89858 (patch) | |
tree | 10876bb4304bffe54c4160a132e7b8de6577ac4e /mm/Kconfig | |
parent | 7e48c101e0c53e6095c5f4f5e63d14df50aae8fc (diff) | |
parent | cc2df20c7c4ce594c3e17e9cc260c330646012c8 (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-next
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mm/Kconfig
CMA DMA split and ZSWAP introduction were conflicting, fix up manually.
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 81bcb4bd422d..6cdd27043303 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -501,3 +501,45 @@ config CMA_DEBUG messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous(). This option does not affect warning and error messages. + +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 ZSWAP + bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on FRONTSWAP && CRYPTO=y + select CRYPTO_LZO + select ZBUD + default n + help + A lightweight compressed cache for swap pages. It takes + pages that are in the process of being swapped out and attempts to + compress them into a dynamically allocated RAM-based memory pool. + This can result in a significant I/O reduction on swap device and, + in the case where decompressing from RAM is faster that swap device + reads, can also improve workload performance. + + This is marked experimental because it is a new feature (as of + v3.11) that interacts heavily with memory reclaim. While these + interactions don't cause any known issues on simple memory setups, + they have not be fully explored on the large set of potential + configurations and workloads that exist. + +config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY + bool "Track memory changes" + depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY + select PROC_PAGE_MONITOR + help + This option enables memory changes tracking by introducing a + soft-dirty bit on pte-s. This bit it set when someone writes + into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter + it can be cleared by hands. + + See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details. |