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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 |