On 08/06/2013 02:42 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > Hi, > > Currently zbud pages are not movable and they cannot be allocated from CMA > region. These patches try to address the problem by: > 1. Adding a new form of reclaim of zbud pages. > 2. Reclaiming zbud pages during migration and compaction. > 3. Allocating zbud pages with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag. > > This reclaim process is different than zbud_reclaim_page(). It acts more > like swapoff() by trying to unuse pages stored in zbud page and bring > them back to memory. The standard zbud_reclaim_page() on the other hand > tries to write them back. I prefer to migrate zbud pages directly if it's possible than reclaiming them during compaction. > > One of patches introduces a new flag: PageZbud. This flag is used in > isolate_migratepages_range() to grab zbud pages and pass them later > for reclaim. Probably this could be replaced with something > smarter than a flag used only in one case. > Any ideas for a better solution are welcome. > > This patch set is based on Linux 3.11-rc4. > > TODOs: > 1. Replace PageZbud flag with other solution. > > Best regards, > Krzysztof Kozlowski > > > Krzysztof Kozlowski (4): > zbud: use page ref counter for zbud pages > mm: split code for unusing swap entries from try_to_unuse > mm: add zbud flag to page flags > mm: reclaim zbud pages on migration and compaction > > include/linux/page-flags.h | 12 ++ > include/linux/swapfile.h | 2 + > include/linux/zbud.h | 11 +- > mm/compaction.c | 20 ++- > mm/internal.h | 1 + > mm/page_alloc.c | 9 ++ > mm/swapfile.c | 354 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- > mm/zbud.c | 301 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > mm/zswap.c | 57 ++++++- > 9 files changed, 499 insertions(+), 268 deletions(-) > -- Regards, -Bob -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>