From 5bc20fc59706214d9591c11e1938a629d3538c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Magenheimer Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:02:21 -0600 Subject: xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem). Xen tmem provides "hypervisor RAM" as an ephemeral page-oriented pseudo-RAM store for cleancache pages, shared cleancache pages, and frontswap pages. Tmem provides enterprise-quality concurrency, full save/restore and live migration support, compression and deduplication. A presentation showing up to 8% faster performance and up to 52% reduction in sectors read on a kernel compile workload, despite aggressive in-kernel page reclamation ("self-ballooning") can be found at: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/presentations/TranscendentMemoryXenSummit2010.pdf Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik Van Riel Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Ted Ts'o Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Nitin Gupta --- arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h index 8508bfe52296..d240ea950519 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h @@ -447,6 +447,13 @@ HYPERVISOR_hvm_op(int op, void *arg) return _hypercall2(unsigned long, hvm_op, op, arg); } +static inline int +HYPERVISOR_tmem_op( + struct tmem_op *op) +{ + return _hypercall1(int, tmem_op, op); +} + static inline void MULTI_fpu_taskswitch(struct multicall_entry *mcl, int set) { -- cgit v1.2.3