From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754183Ab3GTOhN (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:37:13 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:41294 "EHLO mail-pb0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754117Ab3GTOhL (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:37:11 -0400 From: Bob Liu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, ngupta@vflare.org, minchan@kernel.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mgorman@suse.de, riel@redhat.com, penberg@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Bob Liu Subject: [PATCH 0/2] zcache: a new start for upstream Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:36:56 +0800 Message-Id: <1374331018-11045-1-git-send-email-bob.liu@oracle.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We already have zswap helps reducing the swap out/in IO operations by compressing anon pages. It has been merged into v3.11-rc1 together with the zbud allocation layer. However there is another kind of pages(clean file pages) suitable for compression as well. Upstream has already merged its frontend(cleancache). Now we are lacking of a backend of cleancache as zswap to frontswap. Furthermore, we need to balance the number of compressed anon and file pages, E.g. it's unfair to normal file pages if zswap pool occupies too much memory for the storage of compressed anon pages. Although the current version of zcache in staging tree has already done those works mentioned above, the implementation is too complicated to be merged into upstream. What I'm looking for is a new way for zcache towards upstream. The first change is no more staging tree. Second is implemented a simple cleancache backend at first, which is based on the zbud allocation same as zswap. At the end, I hope we can combine the new cleancache backend with zswap(frontswap backend), in order to have a generic in-kernel memory compression solution in upstream. Bob Liu (2): zcache: staging: %s/ZCACHE/ZCACHE_OLD mm: zcache: core functions added drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig | 12 +- drivers/staging/zcache/Makefile | 4 +- mm/Kconfig | 18 + mm/Makefile | 1 + mm/zcache.c | 840 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 867 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100644 mm/zcache.c -- 1.7.10.4