[PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

[PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

[Peter Zijlstra]

Hi,

Another posting of the full swap over NFS series. 

Andrew/Linus, could we start thinking of sticking this in -mm?

[ patches against 2.6.24-rc5-mm1, also to be found online at:
  http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/vm_deadlock/v2.6.24-rc5-mm1/ ]

The patch-set can be split in roughtly 5 parts, for each of which I shall give
a description.


  Part 1, patches 1-11

The problem with swap over network is the generic swap problem: needing memory
to free memory. Normally this is solved using mempools, as can be seen in the
BIO layer.

Swap over network has the problem that the network subsystem does not use fixed
sized allocations, but heavily relies on kmalloc(). This makes mempools
unusable.

This first part provides a generic reserve framework.

Care is taken to only affect the slow paths - when we're low on memory.

Caveats: it currently doesn't do SLOB.

 1 - mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags()
 2 - mm: tag reseve pages
 3 - mm: sl[au]b: add knowledge of reserve pages
 4 - mm: kmem_estimate_pages()
 5 - mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context
 6 - mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes
 7 - mm: emergency pool
 8 - mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK
 9 - mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC
10 - mm: memory reserve management
11 - selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical


  Part 2, patches 12-14

Provide some generic network infrastructure needed later on.

12 - net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv()
13 - net: packet split receive api
14 - net: sk_allocation() - concentrate socket related allocations


  Part 3, patches 15-21

Now that we have a generic memory reserve system, use it on the network stack.
The thing that makes this interesting is that, contrary to BIO, both the
transmit and receive path require memory allocations. 

That is, in the BIO layer write back completion is usually just an ISR flipping
a bit and waking stuff up. A network write back completion involved receiving
packets, which when there is no memory, is rather hard. And even when there is
memory there is no guarantee that the required packet comes in in the window
that that memory buys us.

The solution to this problem is found in the fact that network is to be assumed
lossy. Even now, when there is no memory to receive packets the network card
will have to discard packets. What we do is move this into the network stack.

So we reserve a little pool to act as a receive buffer, this allows us to
inspect packets before tossing them. This way, we can filter out those packets
that ensure progress (writeback completion) and disregard the others (as would
have happened anyway). [ NOTE: this is a stable mode of operation with limited
memory usage, exactly the kind of thing we need ]

Again, care is taken to keep much of the overhead of this to only affect the
slow path. Only packets allocated from the reserves will suffer the extra
atomic overhead needed for accounting.

15 - netvm: network reserve infrastructure
16 - netvm: INET reserves.
17 - netvm: hook skb allocation to reserves
18 - netvm: filter emergency skbs.
19 - netvm: prevent a TCP specific deadlock
20 - netfilter: NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs
21 - netvm: skb processing


  Part 4, patches 22-24

Generic vm infrastructure to handle swapping to a filesystem instead of a block
device.

This provides new a_ops to handle swapcache pages and could be used to obsolete
the bmap usage for swapfiles.

22 - mm: prepare swap entry methods for use in page methods
23 - mm: add support for non block device backed swap files
24 - mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages


  Part 5, patches 25-29

Finally, convert NFS to make use of the new network and vm infrastructure to
provide swap over NFS.

25 - nfs: remove mempools
26 - nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages
27 - nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles
28 - nfs: enable swap on NFS
29 - nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS.


Changes since -v14:
 - SLAB support
 - a_ops rework
 - various bug fixes and cleanups

[PATCH 01/29] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags()

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-gfp-to-alloc_flags.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 5556 bytes --]

Factor out the gfp to alloc_flags mapping so it can be used in other places.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 mm/internal.h   |   11 ++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c |   98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/internal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/internal.h
+++ linux-2.6/mm/internal.h
@@ -47,4 +47,15 @@ static inline unsigned long page_order(s
 	VM_BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page));
 	return page_private(page);
 }
+
+#define ALLOC_HARDER		0x01 /* try to alloc harder */
+#define ALLOC_HIGH		0x02 /* __GFP_HIGH set */
+#define ALLOC_WMARK_MIN		0x04 /* use pages_min watermark */
+#define ALLOC_WMARK_LOW		0x08 /* use pages_low watermark */
+#define ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH	0x10 /* use pages_high watermark */
+#define ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS	0x20 /* don't check watermarks at all */
+#define ALLOC_CPUSET		0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */
+
+int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
 #endif
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1139,14 +1139,6 @@ failed:
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-#define ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS	0x01 /* don't check watermarks at all */
-#define ALLOC_WMARK_MIN		0x02 /* use pages_min watermark */
-#define ALLOC_WMARK_LOW		0x04 /* use pages_low watermark */
-#define ALLOC_WMARK_HIGH	0x08 /* use pages_high watermark */
-#define ALLOC_HARDER		0x10 /* try to alloc harder */
-#define ALLOC_HIGH		0x20 /* __GFP_HIGH set */
-#define ALLOC_CPUSET		0x40 /* check for correct cpuset */
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_PAGE_ALLOC
 
 static struct fail_page_alloc_attr {
@@ -1535,6 +1527,44 @@ static void set_page_owner(struct page *
 #endif /* CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER */
 
 /*
+ * get the deepest reaching allocation flags for the given gfp_mask
+ */
+int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	struct task_struct *p = current;
+	int alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN | ALLOC_CPUSET;
+	const gfp_t wait = gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT;
+
+	/*
+	 * The caller may dip into page reserves a bit more if the caller
+	 * cannot run direct reclaim, or if the caller has realtime scheduling
+	 * policy or is asking for __GFP_HIGH memory.  GFP_ATOMIC requests will
+	 * set both ALLOC_HARDER (!wait) and ALLOC_HIGH (__GFP_HIGH).
+	 */
+	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH)
+		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGH;
+
+	if (!wait) {
+		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+		/*
+		 * Ignore cpuset if GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) rather than fail alloc.
+		 * See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
+		 */
+		alloc_flags &= ~ALLOC_CPUSET;
+	} else if (unlikely(rt_task(p)) && !in_interrupt())
+		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
+
+	if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
+		if (!in_interrupt() &&
+		    ((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) ||
+		     unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))))
+			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
+	}
+
+	return alloc_flags;
+}
+
+/*
  * This is the 'heart' of the zoned buddy allocator.
  */
 struct page * fastcall
@@ -1589,48 +1619,28 @@ restart:
 	 * OK, we're below the kswapd watermark and have kicked background
 	 * reclaim. Now things get more complex, so set up alloc_flags according
 	 * to how we want to proceed.
-	 *
-	 * The caller may dip into page reserves a bit more if the caller
-	 * cannot run direct reclaim, or if the caller has realtime scheduling
-	 * policy or is asking for __GFP_HIGH memory.  GFP_ATOMIC requests will
-	 * set both ALLOC_HARDER (!wait) and ALLOC_HIGH (__GFP_HIGH).
 	 */
-	alloc_flags = ALLOC_WMARK_MIN;
-	if ((unlikely(rt_task(p)) && !in_interrupt()) || !wait)
-		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
-	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_HIGH)
-		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HIGH;
-	if (wait)
-		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_CPUSET;
+	alloc_flags = gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_mask);
 
-	/*
-	 * Go through the zonelist again. Let __GFP_HIGH and allocations
-	 * coming from realtime tasks go deeper into reserves.
-	 *
-	 * This is the last chance, in general, before the goto nopage.
-	 * Ignore cpuset if GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) rather than fail alloc.
-	 * See also cpuset_zone_allowed() comment in kernel/cpuset.c.
-	 */
-	page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, zonelist, alloc_flags);
+	/* This is the last chance, in general, before the goto nopage. */
+	page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
+			alloc_flags & ~ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
 	if (page)
 		goto got_pg;
 
 	/* This allocation should allow future memory freeing. */
-
 rebalance:
-	if (((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) || unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
-			&& !in_interrupt()) {
-		if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC)) {
+	if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
 nofail_alloc:
-			/* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
-			page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
-				zonelist, ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
-			if (page)
-				goto got_pg;
-			if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) {
-				congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50);
-				goto nofail_alloc;
-			}
+		/* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
+		page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
+				ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
+		if (page)
+			goto got_pg;
+
+		if (wait && (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
+			congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50);
+			goto nofail_alloc;
 		}
 		goto nopage;
 	}
@@ -1639,6 +1649,10 @@ nofail_alloc:
 	if (!wait)
 		goto nopage;
 
+	/* Avoid recursion of direct reclaim */
+	if (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
+		goto nopage;
+
 	cond_resched();
 
 	/* We now go into synchronous reclaim */

--

[PATCH 02/29] mm: tag reseve pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: page_alloc-reserve.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 1265 bytes --]

Tag pages allocated from the reserves with a non-zero page->reserve.
This allows us to distinguish and account reserve pages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |    1 +
 mm/page_alloc.c          |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ struct page {
 	union {
 		pgoff_t index;		/* Our offset within mapping. */
 		void *freelist;		/* SLUB: freelist req. slab lock */
+		int reserve;		/* page_alloc: page is a reserve page */
 	};
 	struct list_head lru;		/* Pageout list, eg. active_list
 					 * protected by zone->lru_lock !
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1448,8 +1448,10 @@ zonelist_scan:
 		}
 
 		page = buffered_rmqueue(zonelist, zone, order, gfp_mask);
-		if (page)
+		if (page) {
+			page->reserve = !!(alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);
 			break;
+		}
 this_zone_full:
 		if (NUMA_BUILD)
 			zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);

--

[PATCH 03/29] mm: slb: add knowledge of reserve pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: reserve-slub.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 9728 bytes --]

Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to allocation
contexts that are entitled to it. This is done to ensure reserve pages don't
leak out and get consumed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/slub_def.h |    1 
 mm/slab.c                |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 mm/slub.c                |   27 ++++++++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
@@ -21,11 +21,12 @@
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/memory.h>
+#include "internal.h"
 
 /*
  * Lock order:
  *   1. slab_lock(page)
- *   2. slab->list_lock
+ *   2. node->list_lock
  *
  *   The slab_lock protects operations on the object of a particular
  *   slab and its metadata in the page struct. If the slab lock
@@ -1071,7 +1072,7 @@ static void setup_object(struct kmem_cac
 }
 
 static noinline struct page *new_slab(struct kmem_cache *s,
-						gfp_t flags, int node)
+					gfp_t flags, int node, int *reserve)
 {
 	struct page *page;
 	struct kmem_cache_node *n;
@@ -1087,6 +1088,7 @@ static noinline struct page *new_slab(st
 	if (!page)
 		goto out;
 
+	*reserve = page->reserve;
 	n = get_node(s, page_to_nid(page));
 	if (n)
 		atomic_long_inc(&n->nr_slabs);
@@ -1517,11 +1519,12 @@ static noinline unsigned long get_new_sl
 {
 	struct kmem_cache_cpu *c = *pc;
 	struct page *page;
+	int reserve;
 
 	if (gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT)
 		local_irq_enable();
 
-	page = new_slab(s, gfpflags, node);
+	page = new_slab(s, gfpflags, node, &reserve);
 
 	if (gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT)
 		local_irq_disable();
@@ -1530,6 +1533,7 @@ static noinline unsigned long get_new_sl
 		return 0;
 
 	*pc = c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
+	c->reserve = reserve;
 	if (c->page)
 		flush_slab(s, c);
 	c->page = page;
@@ -1564,6 +1568,16 @@ static void *__slab_alloc(struct kmem_ca
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 #endif
+	if (unlikely(c->reserve)) {
+		/*
+		 * If the current slab is a reserve slab and the current
+		 * allocation context does not allow access to the reserves we
+		 * must force an allocation to test the current levels.
+		 */
+		if (!(gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfpflags) & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS))
+			goto grow_slab;
+	}
+
 	if (likely(c->page)) {
 		state = slab_lock(c->page);
 
@@ -1586,7 +1600,7 @@ load_freelist:
 	 */
 	VM_BUG_ON(c->page->freelist == c->page->end);
 
-	if (unlikely(state & SLABDEBUG))
+	if (unlikely((state & SLABDEBUG) || c->reserve))
 		goto debug;
 
 	object = c->page->freelist;
@@ -1615,7 +1629,7 @@ grow_slab:
 /* Perform debugging */
 debug:
 	object = c->page->freelist;
-	if (!alloc_debug_processing(s, c->page, object, addr))
+	if ((state & SLABDEBUG) && !alloc_debug_processing(s, c->page, object, addr))
 		goto another_slab;
 
 	c->page->inuse++;
@@ -2156,10 +2170,11 @@ static struct kmem_cache_node *early_kme
 	struct page *page;
 	struct kmem_cache_node *n;
 	unsigned long flags;
+	int reserve;
 
 	BUG_ON(kmalloc_caches->size < sizeof(struct kmem_cache_node));
 
-	page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags, node);
+	page = new_slab(kmalloc_caches, gfpflags, node, &reserve);
 
 	BUG_ON(!page);
 	if (page_to_nid(page) != node) {
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slub_def.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slub_def.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slub_def.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct kmem_cache_cpu {
 	unsigned int offset;	/* Freepointer offset (in word units) */
 	unsigned int objsize;	/* Size of an object (from kmem_cache) */
 	unsigned int objects;	/* Objects per slab (from kmem_cache) */
+	int reserve;		/* Did the current page come from the reserve */
 };
 
 struct kmem_cache_node {
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@
 #include	<asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include	<asm/page.h>
 
+#include 	"internal.h"
+
 /*
  * DEBUG	- 1 for kmem_cache_create() to honour; SLAB_RED_ZONE & SLAB_POISON.
  *		  0 for faster, smaller code (especially in the critical paths).
@@ -265,7 +267,8 @@ struct array_cache {
 	unsigned int avail;
 	unsigned int limit;
 	unsigned int batchcount;
-	unsigned int touched;
+	unsigned int touched:1,
+		     reserve:1;
 	spinlock_t lock;
 	void *entry[];	/*
 			 * Must have this definition in here for the proper
@@ -762,6 +765,27 @@ static inline struct array_cache *cpu_ca
 	return cachep->array[smp_processor_id()];
 }
 
+/*
+ * If the last page came from the reserves, and the current allocation context
+ * does not have access to them, force an allocation to test the watermarks.
+ */
+static inline int slab_force_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	if (unlikely(cpu_cache_get(cachep)->reserve) &&
+			!(gfp_to_alloc_flags(flags) & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void slab_set_reserve(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int reserve)
+{
+	struct array_cache *ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
+
+	if (unlikely(ac->reserve != reserve))
+		ac->reserve = reserve;
+}
+
 static inline struct kmem_cache *__find_general_cachep(size_t size,
 							gfp_t gfpflags)
 {
@@ -961,6 +985,7 @@ static struct array_cache *alloc_arrayca
 		nc->limit = entries;
 		nc->batchcount = batchcount;
 		nc->touched = 0;
+		nc->reserve = 0;
 		spin_lock_init(&nc->lock);
 	}
 	return nc;
@@ -1650,7 +1675,8 @@ __initcall(cpucache_init);
  * did not request dmaable memory, we might get it, but that
  * would be relatively rare and ignorable.
  */
-static void *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid)
+static void *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid,
+		int *reserve)
 {
 	struct page *page;
 	int nr_pages;
@@ -1672,6 +1698,7 @@ static void *kmem_getpages(struct kmem_c
 	if (!page)
 		return NULL;
 
+	*reserve = page->reserve;
 	nr_pages = (1 << cachep->gfporder);
 	if (cachep->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT)
 		add_zone_page_state(page_zone(page),
@@ -2116,6 +2143,7 @@ static int __init_refok setup_cpu_cache(
 	cpu_cache_get(cachep)->limit = BOOT_CPUCACHE_ENTRIES;
 	cpu_cache_get(cachep)->batchcount = 1;
 	cpu_cache_get(cachep)->touched = 0;
+	cpu_cache_get(cachep)->reserve = 0;
 	cachep->batchcount = 1;
 	cachep->limit = BOOT_CPUCACHE_ENTRIES;
 	return 0;
@@ -2764,6 +2792,7 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache 
 	size_t offset;
 	gfp_t local_flags;
 	struct kmem_list3 *l3;
+	int reserve;
 
 	/*
 	 * Be lazy and only check for valid flags here,  keeping it out of the
@@ -2802,7 +2831,7 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache 
 	 * 'nodeid'.
 	 */
 	if (!objp)
-		objp = kmem_getpages(cachep, local_flags, nodeid);
+		objp = kmem_getpages(cachep, local_flags, nodeid, &reserve);
 	if (!objp)
 		goto failed;
 
@@ -2820,6 +2849,7 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache 
 	if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
 		local_irq_disable();
 	check_irq_off();
+	slab_set_reserve(cachep, reserve);
 	spin_lock(&l3->list_lock);
 
 	/* Make slab active. */
@@ -2954,7 +2984,7 @@ bad:
 #define check_slabp(x,y) do { } while(0)
 #endif
 
-static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
+static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int must_refill)
 {
 	int batchcount;
 	struct kmem_list3 *l3;
@@ -2964,6 +2994,8 @@ static void *cache_alloc_refill(struct k
 	node = numa_node_id();
 
 	check_irq_off();
+	if (unlikely(must_refill))
+		goto force_grow;
 	ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
 retry:
 	batchcount = ac->batchcount;
@@ -3032,11 +3064,14 @@ alloc_done:
 
 	if (unlikely(!ac->avail)) {
 		int x;
+force_grow:
 		x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, node, NULL);
 
 		/* cache_grow can reenable interrupts, then ac could change. */
 		ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
-		if (!x && ac->avail == 0)	/* no objects in sight? abort */
+
+		/* no objects in sight? abort */
+		if (!x && (ac->avail == 0 || must_refill))
 			return NULL;
 
 		if (!ac->avail)		/* objects refilled by interrupt? */
@@ -3191,17 +3226,18 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(stru
 {
 	void *objp;
 	struct array_cache *ac;
+	int must_refill = slab_force_alloc(cachep, flags);
 
 	check_irq_off();
 
 	ac = cpu_cache_get(cachep);
-	if (likely(ac->avail)) {
+	if (likely(ac->avail && !must_refill)) {
 		STATS_INC_ALLOCHIT(cachep);
 		ac->touched = 1;
 		objp = ac->entry[--ac->avail];
 	} else {
 		STATS_INC_ALLOCMISS(cachep);
-		objp = cache_alloc_refill(cachep, flags);
+		objp = cache_alloc_refill(cachep, flags, must_refill);
 	}
 	return objp;
 }
@@ -3243,7 +3279,7 @@ static void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_
 	gfp_t local_flags;
 	struct zone **z;
 	void *obj = NULL;
-	int nid;
+	int nid, reserve;
 
 	if (flags & __GFP_THISNODE)
 		return NULL;
@@ -3277,10 +3313,11 @@ retry:
 		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
 			local_irq_enable();
 		kmem_flagcheck(cache, flags);
-		obj = kmem_getpages(cache, flags, -1);
+		obj = kmem_getpages(cache, flags, -1, &reserve);
 		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
 			local_irq_disable();
 		if (obj) {
+			slab_set_reserve(cache, reserve);
 			/*
 			 * Insert into the appropriate per node queues
 			 */
@@ -3319,6 +3356,9 @@ static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct
 	l3 = cachep->nodelists[nodeid];
 	BUG_ON(!l3);
 
+	if (unlikely(slab_force_alloc(cachep, flags)))
+		goto force_grow;
+
 retry:
 	check_irq_off();
 	spin_lock(&l3->list_lock);
@@ -3356,6 +3396,7 @@ retry:
 
 must_grow:
 	spin_unlock(&l3->list_lock);
+force_grow:
 	x = cache_grow(cachep, flags | GFP_THISNODE, nodeid, NULL);
 	if (x)
 		goto retry;

--

[PATCH 04/29] mm: kmem_estimate_pages()

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-kmem_estimate_pages.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 6376 bytes --]

Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to allocate
a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache.

This lays the foundation for a generic reserve framework as presented in
a later patch in this series. This framework needs to convert object demand
(kmalloc() bytes, kmem_cache_alloc() objects) to pages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/slab.h |    3 +
 mm/slab.c            |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/slub.c            |   82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 159 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/slab.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *
 unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
 const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
 int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
+unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int objects);
 
 /*
  * Please use this macro to create slab caches. Simply specify the
@@ -94,6 +95,8 @@ int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache 
 void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
 void kfree(const void *);
 size_t ksize(const void *);
+unsigned kestimate_single(size_t, gfp_t, int);
+unsigned kestimate(gfp_t, size_t);
 
 /*
  * Allocator specific definitions. These are mainly used to establish optimized
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
@@ -2446,6 +2446,37 @@ const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_name);
 
 /*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocated count
+ * objects from the given cache
+ */
+unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags, int objects)
+{
+	unsigned long slabs;
+
+	if (WARN_ON(!s) || WARN_ON(!s->objects))
+		return 0;
+
+	slabs = DIV_ROUND_UP(objects, s->objects);
+
+	/*
+	 * Account the possible additional overhead if the slab holds more that
+	 * one object.
+	 */
+	if (s->objects > 1) {
+		/*
+		 * Account the possible additional overhead if per cpu slabs
+		 * are currently empty and have to be allocated. This is very
+		 * unlikely but a possible scenario immediately after
+		 * kmem_cache_shrink.
+		 */
+		slabs += num_online_cpus();
+	}
+
+	return slabs << s->order;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmem_estimate_pages);
+
+/*
  * Attempt to free all slabs on a node. Return the number of slabs we
  * were unable to free.
  */
@@ -2800,6 +2831,57 @@ static unsigned long count_partial(struc
 }
 
 /*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocate @count objects
+ * of @size bytes from kmalloc given @flags.
+ */
+unsigned kestimate_single(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int count)
+{
+	struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, flags);
+	if (!s)
+		return 0;
+
+	return kmem_estimate_pages(s, flags, count);
+
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kestimate_single);
+
+/*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocate @bytes from kmalloc
+ * in an unspecified number of allocation of heterogeneous size.
+ */
+unsigned kestimate(gfp_t flags, size_t bytes)
+{
+	int i;
+	unsigned long pages;
+
+	/*
+	 * multiply by two, in order to account the worst case slack space
+	 * due to the power-of-two allocation sizes.
+	 */
+	pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(2 * bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	/*
+	 * add the kmem_cache overhead of each possible kmalloc cache
+	 */
+	for (i = 1; i < PAGE_SHIFT; i++) {
+		struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+		if (unlikely(flags & SLUB_DMA))
+			s = dma_kmalloc_cache(i, flags);
+		else
+#endif
+			s = &kmalloc_caches[i];
+
+		if (s)
+			pages += kmem_estimate_pages(s, flags, 0);
+	}
+
+	return pages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kestimate);
+
+/*
  * kmem_cache_shrink removes empty slabs from the partial lists and sorts
  * the remaining slabs by the number of items in use. The slabs with the
  * most items in use come first. New allocations will then fill those up
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slab.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slab.c
@@ -3844,6 +3844,80 @@ const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kmem_cache_name);
 
 /*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocated count
+ * objects from the given cache
+ */
+unsigned kmem_estimate_pages(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int objects)
+{
+	/*
+	 * (1) memory for objects,
+	 */
+	unsigned nr_slabs = DIV_ROUND_UP(objects, cachep->num);
+	unsigned nr_pages = nr_slabs << cachep->gfporder;
+
+	/*
+	 * (2) memory for each per-cpu queue (nr_cpu_ids),
+	 * (3) memory for each per-node alien queues (nr_cpu_ids), and
+	 * (4) some amount of memory for the slab management structures
+	 *
+	 * XXX: truely account these
+	 */
+	nr_pages += 1 + ilog2(nr_pages);
+
+	return nr_pages;
+}
+
+/*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocate @count objects
+ * of @size bytes from kmalloc given @flags.
+ */
+unsigned kestimate_single(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int count)
+{
+	struct kmem_cache *s = kmem_find_general_cachep(size, flags);
+	if (!s)
+		return 0;
+
+	return kmem_estimate_pages(s, flags, count);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kestimate_single);
+
+/*
+ * return the max number of pages required to allocate @bytes from kmalloc
+ * in an unspecified number of allocation of heterogeneous size.
+ */
+unsigned kestimate(gfp_t flags, size_t bytes)
+{
+	unsigned long pages;
+	struct cache_sizes *csizep = malloc_sizes;
+
+	/*
+	 * multiply by two, in order to account the worst case slack space
+	 * due to the power-of-two allocation sizes.
+	 */
+	pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(2 * bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	/*
+	 * add the kmem_cache overhead of each possible kmalloc cache
+	 */
+	for (csizep = malloc_sizes; csizep->cs_cachep; csizep++) {
+		struct kmem_cache *s;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+		if (unlikely(flags & __GFP_DMA))
+			s = csizep->cs_dmacachep;
+		else
+#endif
+			s = csizep->cs_cachep;
+
+		if (s)
+			pages += kmem_estimate_pages(s, flags, 0);
+	}
+
+	return pages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kestimate);
+
+/*
  * This initializes kmem_list3 or resizes various caches for all nodes.
  */
 static int alloc_kmemlist(struct kmem_cache *cachep)

--

[PATCH 05/29] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-PF_MEMALLOC-softirq.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2287 bytes --]

Allow PF_MEMALLOC to be set in softirq context. When running softirqs from
a borrowed context save current->flags, ksoftirqd will have its own 
task_struct.

This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make use of
PF_MEMALLOC.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    4 ++++
 kernel/softirq.c      |    3 +++
 mm/page_alloc.c       |    7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1557,9 +1557,10 @@ int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
 
 	if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
-		if (!in_interrupt() &&
-		    ((p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) ||
-		     unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))))
+		if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
+		else if (!in_interrupt() &&
+				unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))
 			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
 	}
 
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/softirq.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/softirq.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
 	__u32 pending;
 	int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
 	int cpu;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
+	current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
 
 	pending = local_softirq_pending();
 	account_system_vtime(current);
@@ -249,6 +251,7 @@ restart:
 
 	account_system_vtime(current);
 	_local_bh_enable();
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 #ifndef __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1389,6 +1389,10 @@ static inline void put_task_struct(struc
 #define tsk_used_math(p) ((p)->flags & PF_USED_MATH)
 #define used_math() tsk_used_math(current)
 
+#define tsk_restore_flags(p, pflags, mask) \
+	do {	(p)->flags &= ~(mask); \
+		(p)->flags |= ((pflags) & (mask)); } while (0)
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 extern int set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, cpumask_t new_mask);
 #else

--

[PATCH 06/29] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-setup_per_zone_pages_min.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 1836 bytes --]

There is a small race between the procfs caller and the memory hotplug caller
of setup_per_zone_pages_min(). Not a big deal, but the next patch will add yet
another caller. Time to close the gap.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZO
 	 "Movable",
 };
 
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(min_free_lock);
 int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
 
 unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
@@ -4162,12 +4163,12 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserv
 }
 
 /**
- * setup_per_zone_pages_min - called when min_free_kbytes changes.
+ * __setup_per_zone_pages_min - called when min_free_kbytes changes.
  *
  * Ensures that the pages_{min,low,high} values for each zone are set correctly
  * with respect to min_free_kbytes.
  */
-void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
+static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
 {
 	unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
 	unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
@@ -4222,6 +4223,15 @@ void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
 	calculate_totalreserve_pages();
 }
 
+void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&min_free_lock, flags);
+	__setup_per_zone_pages_min();
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&min_free_lock, flags);
+}
+
 /*
  * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
  *
@@ -4257,7 +4267,7 @@ static int __init init_per_zone_pages_mi
 		min_free_kbytes = 128;
 	if (min_free_kbytes > 65536)
 		min_free_kbytes = 65536;
-	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
+	__setup_per_zone_pages_min();
 	setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve();
 	return 0;
 }

--

[PATCH 07/29] mm: emergency pool

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-page_alloc-emerg.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 6606 bytes --]

Provide means to reserve a specific amount of pages.

The emergency pool is separated from the min watermark because ALLOC_HARDER
and ALLOC_HIGH modify the watermark in a relative way and thus do not ensure
a strict minimum.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h |    3 +
 mm/page_alloc.c        |   82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 mm/vmstat.c            |    6 +--
 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mmzone.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ enum zone_type {
 
 struct zone {
 	/* Fields commonly accessed by the page allocator */
-	unsigned long		pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
+	unsigned long		pages_emerg, pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
 	/*
 	 * We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be freeable
 	 * or/and it will be released eventually, so to avoid totally wasting several
@@ -682,6 +682,7 @@ int sysctl_min_unmapped_ratio_sysctl_han
 			struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
 int sysctl_min_slab_ratio_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 			struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+int adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages);
 
 extern int numa_zonelist_order_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
 			struct file *, void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZO
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(min_free_lock);
 int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(var_free_mutex);
+int var_free_kbytes;
 
 unsigned long __meminitdata nr_kernel_pages;
 unsigned long __meminitdata nr_all_pages;
@@ -1252,7 +1254,7 @@ int zone_watermark_ok(struct zone *z, in
 	if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER)
 		min -= min / 4;
 
-	if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx])
+	if (free_pages <= min + z->lowmem_reserve[classzone_idx] + z->pages_emerg)
 		return 0;
 	for (o = 0; o < order; o++) {
 		/* At the next order, this order's pages become unavailable */
@@ -1733,8 +1735,8 @@ nofail_alloc:
 nopage:
 	if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) && printk_ratelimit()) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: page allocation failure."
-			" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
-			p->comm, order, gfp_mask);
+			" order:%d, mode:0x%x, alloc_flags:0x%x, pflags:0x%x\n",
+			p->comm, order, gfp_mask, alloc_flags, p->flags);
 		dump_stack();
 		show_mem();
 	}
@@ -1952,9 +1954,9 @@ void show_free_areas(void)
 			"\n",
 			zone->name,
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES)),
-			K(zone->pages_min),
-			K(zone->pages_low),
-			K(zone->pages_high),
+			K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_min),
+			K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_low),
+			K(zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_high),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_ACTIVE)),
 			K(zone_page_state(zone, NR_INACTIVE)),
 			K(zone->present_pages),
@@ -4113,7 +4115,7 @@ static void calculate_totalreserve_pages
 			}
 
 			/* we treat pages_high as reserved pages. */
-			max += zone->pages_high;
+			max += zone->pages_high + zone->pages_emerg;
 
 			if (max > zone->present_pages)
 				max = zone->present_pages;
@@ -4170,7 +4172,8 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserv
  */
 static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
 {
-	unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+	unsigned pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+	unsigned pages_emerg = var_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
 	unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
 	struct zone *zone;
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -4182,11 +4185,13 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(v
 	}
 
 	for_each_zone(zone) {
-		u64 tmp;
+		u64 tmp, tmp_emerg;
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
 		tmp = (u64)pages_min * zone->present_pages;
 		do_div(tmp, lowmem_pages);
+		tmp_emerg = (u64)pages_emerg * zone->present_pages;
+		do_div(tmp_emerg, lowmem_pages);
 		if (is_highmem(zone)) {
 			/*
 			 * __GFP_HIGH and PF_MEMALLOC allocations usually don't
@@ -4205,12 +4210,14 @@ static void __setup_per_zone_pages_min(v
 			if (min_pages > 128)
 				min_pages = 128;
 			zone->pages_min = min_pages;
+			zone->pages_emerg = 0;
 		} else {
 			/*
 			 * If it's a lowmem zone, reserve a number of pages
 			 * proportionate to the zone's size.
 			 */
 			zone->pages_min = tmp;
+			zone->pages_emerg = tmp_emerg;
 		}
 
 		zone->pages_low   = zone->pages_min + (tmp >> 2);
@@ -4232,6 +4239,63 @@ void setup_per_zone_pages_min(void)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&min_free_lock, flags);
 }
 
+static void __adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages)
+{
+	var_free_kbytes += pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+	BUG_ON(var_free_kbytes < 0);
+	setup_per_zone_pages_min();
+}
+
+static int test_reserve_limits(void)
+{
+	struct zone *zone;
+	int node;
+
+	for_each_zone(zone)
+		wakeup_kswapd(zone, 0);
+
+	for_each_online_node(node) {
+		struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+		if (!page)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+
+		__free_page(page);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ *	adjust_memalloc_reserve - adjust the memalloc reserve
+ *	@pages: number of pages to add
+ *
+ *	It adds a number of pages to the memalloc reserve; if
+ *	the number was positive it kicks reclaim into action to
+ *	satisfy the higher watermarks.
+ *
+ *	returns -ENOMEM when it failed to satisfy the watermarks.
+ */
+int adjust_memalloc_reserve(int pages)
+{
+	int err = 0;
+
+	mutex_lock(&var_free_mutex);
+	__adjust_memalloc_reserve(pages);
+	if (pages > 0) {
+		err = test_reserve_limits();
+		if (err) {
+			__adjust_memalloc_reserve(-pages);
+			goto unlock;
+		}
+	}
+	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Emergency reserve: %d\n", var_free_kbytes);
+
+unlock:
+	mutex_unlock(&var_free_mutex);
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(adjust_memalloc_reserve);
+
 /*
  * Initialise min_free_kbytes.
  *
Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmstat.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -752,9 +752,9 @@ static void zoneinfo_show_print(struct s
 		   "\n        spanned  %lu"
 		   "\n        present  %lu",
 		   zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES),
-		   zone->pages_min,
-		   zone->pages_low,
-		   zone->pages_high,
+		   zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_min,
+		   zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_low,
+		   zone->pages_emerg + zone->pages_high,
 		   zone->pages_scanned,
 		   zone->nr_scan_active, zone->nr_scan_inactive,
 		   zone->spanned_pages,

--

[PATCH 08/29] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: global-ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 853 bytes --]

Change ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK page allocation such that the reserves are system
wide - which they are per setup_per_zone_pages_min(), when we scrape the
barrel, do it properly.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1638,6 +1638,12 @@ restart:
 rebalance:
 	if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) {
 nofail_alloc:
+		/*
+		 * break out of mempolicy boundaries
+		 */
+		zonelist = NODE_DATA(numa_node_id())->node_zonelists +
+			gfp_zone(gfp_mask);
+
 		/* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
 		page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order, zonelist,
 				ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS);

--

[PATCH 09/29] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-page_alloc-GFP_EMERGENCY.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2048 bytes --]

__GFP_MEMALLOC will allow the allocation to disregard the watermarks, 
much like PF_MEMALLOC.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h |    3 ++-
 mm/page_alloc.c     |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 #define __GFP_REPEAT	((__force gfp_t)0x400u)	/* Retry the allocation.  Might fail */
 #define __GFP_NOFAIL	((__force gfp_t)0x800u)	/* Retry for ever.  Cannot fail */
 #define __GFP_NORETRY	((__force gfp_t)0x1000u)/* Do not retry.  Might fail */
+#define __GFP_MEMALLOC  ((__force gfp_t)0x2000u)/* Use emergency reserves */
 #define __GFP_COMP	((__force gfp_t)0x4000u)/* Add compound page metadata */
 #define __GFP_ZERO	((__force gfp_t)0x8000u)/* Return zeroed page on success */
 #define __GFP_NOMEMALLOC ((__force gfp_t)0x10000u) /* Don't use emergency reserves */
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
 /* Control page allocator reclaim behavior */
 #define GFP_RECLAIM_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|\
 			__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL|\
-			__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
+			__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC)
 
 /* Control allocation constraints */
 #define GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK (__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_THISNODE)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1560,7 +1560,9 @@ int gfp_to_alloc_flags(gfp_t gfp_mask)
 		alloc_flags |= ALLOC_HARDER;
 
 	if (likely(!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOMEMALLOC))) {
-		if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
+		if (gfp_mask & __GFP_MEMALLOC)
+			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
+		else if (!in_irq() && (p->flags & PF_MEMALLOC))
 			alloc_flags |= ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS;
 		else if (!in_interrupt() &&
 				unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE)))

--

[PATCH 10/29] mm: memory reserve management

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-reserve.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 14396 bytes --]

Generic reserve management code. 

It provides methods to reserve and charge. Upon this, generic alloc/free style
reserve pools could be build, which could fully replace mempool_t
functionality.

It should also allow for a Banker's algorithm replacement of __GFP_NOFAIL.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/reserve.h |   54 +++++
 mm/Makefile             |    2 
 mm/reserve.c            |  438 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 493 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/reserve.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/reserve.h
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * Memory reserve management.
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This file contains the public data structure and API definitions.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_RESERVE_H
+#define _LINUX_RESERVE_H
+
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+
+struct mem_reserve {
+	struct mem_reserve *parent;
+	struct list_head children;
+	struct list_head siblings;
+
+	const char *name;
+
+	long pages;
+	long limit;
+	long usage;
+	spinlock_t lock;	/* protects limit and usage */
+};
+
+extern struct mem_reserve mem_reserve_root;
+
+void mem_reserve_init(struct mem_reserve *res, const char *name,
+		      struct mem_reserve *parent);
+int mem_reserve_connect(struct mem_reserve *new_child,
+	       		struct mem_reserve *node);
+int mem_reserve_disconnect(struct mem_reserve *node);
+
+int mem_reserve_pages_set(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages);
+int mem_reserve_pages_add(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages);
+int mem_reserve_pages_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages,
+			     int overcommit);
+
+int mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(struct mem_reserve *res, long bytes);
+int mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long bytes,
+			       int overcommit);
+
+struct kmem_cache;
+
+int mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(struct mem_reserve *res,
+	       		       struct kmem_cache *s,
+			       int objects);
+int mem_reserve_kmem_cache_charge(struct mem_reserve *res,
+				  long objs,
+				  int overcommit);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_RESERVE_H */
Index: linux-2.6/mm/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/Makefile
+++ linux-2.6/mm/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ obj-y			:= bootmem.o filemap.o mempool.o
 			   page_alloc.o page-writeback.o pdflush.o \
 			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o \
 			   prio_tree.o util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
-			   page_isolation.o $(mmu-y)
+			   page_isolation.o reserve.o $(mmu-y)
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR) += pagewalk.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE)	+= bounce.o
Index: linux-2.6/mm/reserve.c
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6/mm/reserve.c
@@ -0,0 +1,438 @@
+/*
+ * Memory reserve management.
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2007, Red Hat, Inc., Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *
+ * Manage a set of memory reserves.
+ *
+ * A memory reserve is a reserve for a specified number of object of specified
+ * size. Since memory is managed in pages, this reserve demand is then
+ * translated into a page unit.
+ *
+ * So each reserve has a specified object limit, an object usage count and a
+ * number of pages required to back these objects.
+ *
+ * Usage is charged against a reserve, if the charge fails, the resource must
+ * not be allocated/used.
+ *
+ * The reserves are managed in a tree, and the resource demands (pages and
+ * limit) are propagated up the tree. Obviously the object limit will be
+ * meaningless as soon as the unit starts mixing, but the required page reserve
+ * (being of one unit) is still valid at the root.
+ *
+ * It is the page demand of the root node that is used to set the global
+ * reserve (adjust_memalloc_reserve() which sets zone->pages_emerg).
+ *
+ * As long as a subtree has the same usage unit, an aggregate node can be used
+ * to charge against, instead of the leaf nodes. However, do be consistent with
+ * who is charged, resource usage is not propagated up the tree (for
+ * performance reasons).
+ */
+
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/mmzone.h>
+#include <linux/log2.h>
+#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+/**
+ * @mem_reserve_root - the global reserve root
+ *
+ * The global reserve is empty, and has no limit unit, it merely
+ * acts as an aggregation point for reserves and an interface to
+ * adjust_memalloc_reserve().
+ */
+struct mem_reserve mem_reserve_root = {
+	.children = LIST_HEAD_INIT(mem_reserve_root.children),
+	.siblings = LIST_HEAD_INIT(mem_reserve_root.siblings),
+	.name = "total reserve",
+	.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(mem_reserve_root.lock),
+};
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_root);
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_init - initialize a memory reserve object
+ * @res - the new reserve object
+ * @name - a name for this reserve
+ */
+void mem_reserve_init(struct mem_reserve *res, const char *name,
+		      struct mem_reserve *parent)
+{
+	memset(res, 0, sizeof(*res));
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&res->children);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&res->siblings);
+	res->name = name;
+	spin_lock_init(&res->lock);
+
+	if (parent)
+		mem_reserve_connect(res, parent);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_init);
+
+/*
+ * propagate the pages and limit changes up the tree.
+ */
+static void __calc_reserve(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages, long limit)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	for ( ; res; res = res->parent) {
+		res->pages += pages;
+
+		if (limit) {
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&res->lock, flags);
+			res->limit += limit;
+			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&res->lock, flags);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+/**
+ * __mem_reserve_add - primitive to change the size of a reserve
+ * @res - reserve to change
+ * @pages - page delta
+ * @limit - usage limit delta
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM when a size increase is not possible atm.
+ */
+static int __mem_reserve_add(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages, long limit)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+	long reserve;
+
+	reserve = mem_reserve_root.pages;
+	__calc_reserve(res, pages, 0);
+	reserve = mem_reserve_root.pages - reserve;
+
+	if (reserve) {
+		ret = adjust_memalloc_reserve(reserve);
+		if (ret)
+			__calc_reserve(res, -pages, 0);
+	}
+
+	if (!ret)
+		__calc_reserve(res, 0, limit);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * __mem_reserve_charge - primitive to charge object usage to a reserve
+ * @res - reserve to charge
+ * @charge - size of the charge
+ * @overcommit - allow despite of limit (use with caution!)
+ *
+ * Returns non-zero on success, zero on failure.
+ */
+static
+int __mem_reserve_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long charge, int overcommit)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&res->lock, flags);
+	if (charge < 0 || res->usage + charge < res->limit || overcommit) {
+		res->usage += charge;
+		if (unlikely(res->usage < 0))
+			res->usage = 0;
+		ret = 1;
+	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&res->lock, flags);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_connect - connect a reserve to another in a child-parent relation
+ * @new_child - the reserve node to connect (child)
+ * @node - the reserve node to connect to (parent)
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM when the new connection would increase the reserve (parent
+ * is connected to mem_reserve_root) and there is no memory to do so.
+ *
+ * The child is _NOT_ connected on error.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_connect(struct mem_reserve *new_child, struct mem_reserve *node)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	WARN_ON(!new_child->name);
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	new_child->parent = node;
+	list_add(&new_child->siblings, &node->children);
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(node, new_child->pages, new_child->limit);
+	if (ret) {
+		new_child->parent = NULL;
+		list_del_init(&new_child->siblings);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_connect);
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_disconnect - sever a nodes connection to the reserve tree
+ * @node - the node to disconnect
+ *
+ * Could, in theory, return -ENOMEM, but since disconnecting a node _should_
+ * only decrease the reserves that _should_ not happen.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_disconnect(struct mem_reserve *node)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	BUG_ON(!node->parent);
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(node->parent, -node->pages, -node->limit);
+	if (!ret) {
+		node->parent = NULL;
+		list_del_init(&node->siblings);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_disconnect);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+
+/*
+ * Simple output of the reserve tree in: /proc/reserve_info
+ * Example:
+ *
+ * localhost ~ # cat /proc/reserve_info
+ * total reserve                  8156K (0/544817)
+ *   total network reserve          8156K (0/544817)
+ *     network TX reserve             196K (0/49)
+ *       protocol TX pages              196K (0/49)
+ *     network RX reserve             7960K (0/544768)
+ *       IPv6 route cache               1372K (0/4096)
+ *       IPv4 route cache               5468K (0/16384)
+ *       SKB data reserve               1120K (0/524288)
+ *         IPv6 fragment cache            560K (0/262144)
+ *         IPv4 fragment cache            560K (0/262144)
+ */
+
+static void mem_reserve_show_item(struct seq_file *m, struct mem_reserve *res,
+				  int nesting)
+{
+	int i;
+	struct mem_reserve *child;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nesting; i++)
+		seq_puts(m, "  ");
+
+	seq_printf(m, "%-30s %ldK (%ld/%ld)\n",
+		   res->name, res->pages << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10),
+		   res->usage, res->limit);
+
+	list_for_each_entry(child, &res->children, siblings)
+		mem_reserve_show_item(m, child, nesting+1);
+}
+
+static int mem_reserve_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	mem_reserve_show_item(m, &mem_reserve_root, 0);
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int mem_reserve_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	return single_open(file, mem_reserve_show, NULL);
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations mem_reserve_opterations = {
+	.open = mem_reserve_open,
+	.read = seq_read,
+	.llseek = seq_lseek,
+	.release = single_release,
+};
+
+static __init int mem_reserve_proc_init(void)
+{
+	struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
+
+	entry = create_proc_entry("reserve_info", S_IRUSR, NULL);
+	if (entry)
+		entry->proc_fops = &mem_reserve_opterations;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__initcall(mem_reserve_proc_init);
+
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * alloc_page helpers
+ */
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_pages_set - set reserves size in pages
+ * @res - reserve to set
+ * @pages - size in pages to set it to
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM when it fails to set the reserve. On failure the old size
+ * is preserved.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_pages_set(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	pages -= res->pages;
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(res, pages, pages);
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_pages_set);
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_pages_add - change the size in a relative way
+ * @res - reserve to change
+ * @pages - number of pages to add (or subtract when negative)
+ *
+ * Similar to mem_reserve_pages_set, except that the argument is relative instead
+ * of absolute.
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM when it fails to increase.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_pages_add(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(res, pages, pages);
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_pages_charge - charge page usage to a reserve
+ * @res - reserve to charge
+ * @pages - size to charge
+ * @overcommit - disregard the usage limit (use with caution!)
+ *
+ * Returns non-zero on success.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_pages_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long pages, int overcommit)
+{
+	return __mem_reserve_charge(res, pages, overcommit);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_pages_charge);
+
+/*
+ * kmalloc helpers
+ */
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_kmalloc_set - set this reserve to bytes worth of kmalloc
+ * @res - reserve to change
+ * @bytes - size in bytes to reserve
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM on failure.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(struct mem_reserve *res, long bytes)
+{
+	int ret;
+	long pages;
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	pages = kestimate(GFP_ATOMIC, bytes);
+	pages -= res->pages;
+	bytes -= res->limit;
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(res, pages, bytes);
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_kmalloc_set);
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge - charge bytes to a reserve
+ * @res - reserve to charge
+ * @bytes - bytes to charge
+ * @overcommit - disregard the usage limit (use with caution!)
+ *
+ * Returns non-zero on success.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long bytes,
+			       int overcommit)
+{
+	if (bytes < 0)
+		bytes = -roundup_pow_of_two(-bytes);
+	else
+		bytes = roundup_pow_of_two(bytes);
+
+	return __mem_reserve_charge(res, bytes, overcommit);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge);
+
+/*
+ * kmem_cache helpers
+ */
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set - set reserve to @objects worth of kmem_cache_alloc of @s
+ * @res - reserve to set
+ * @s - kmem_cache to reserve from
+ * @objects - number of objects to reserve
+ *
+ * Returns -ENOMEM on failure.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(struct mem_reserve *res, struct kmem_cache *s,
+			       int objects)
+{
+	int ret;
+	long pages;
+
+	mutex_lock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+	pages = kmem_estimate_pages(s, GFP_ATOMIC, objects);
+	pages -= res->pages;
+	objects -= res->limit;
+	ret = __mem_reserve_add(res, pages, objects);
+	mutex_unlock(&mem_reserve_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set);
+
+/**
+ * mem_reserve_kmem_cache_charge - charge (or uncharge) usage of objs
+ * @res - reserve to charge
+ * @objs - objects to charge for
+ * @overcommit - disregard the usage limit (use with caution!)
+ *
+ * Returns non-zero on success.
+ */
+int mem_reserve_kmem_cache_charge(struct mem_reserve *res, long objs,
+				  int overcommit)
+{
+	return __mem_reserve_charge(res, objs, overcommit);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_reserve_kmem_cache_charge);

--

[PATCH 11/29] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-selinux-emergency.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 774 bytes --]

Failing to allocate a cache entry will only harm performance not correctness.
Do not consume valuable reserve pages for something like that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
 security/selinux/avc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-2/security/selinux/avc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-2.orig/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ linux-2.6-2/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(v
 {
 	struct avc_node *node;
 
-	node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC);
 	if (!node)
 		goto out;
 

--

[PATCH 12/29] net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv()

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: net-backlog.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2412 bytes --]

Wrap calling sk->sk_backlog_rcv() in a function. This will allow extending the
generic sk_backlog_rcv behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h   |    5 +++++
 net/core/sock.c      |    4 ++--
 net/ipv4/tcp.c       |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -485,6 +485,11 @@ static inline void sk_add_backlog(struct
 	skb->next = NULL;
 }
 
+static inline int sk_backlog_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	return sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+}
+
 #define sk_wait_event(__sk, __timeo, __condition)			\
 	({	int __rc;						\
 		release_sock(__sk);					\
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ int sk_receive_skb(struct sock *sk, stru
 		 */
 		mutex_acquire(&sk->sk_lock.dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);
 
-		rc = sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+		rc = sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
 
 		mutex_release(&sk->sk_lock.dep_map, 1, _RET_IP_);
 	} else
@@ -1312,7 +1312,7 @@ static void __release_sock(struct sock *
 			struct sk_buff *next = skb->next;
 
 			skb->next = NULL;
-			sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+			sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
 
 			/*
 			 * We are in process context here with softirqs
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@ static void tcp_prequeue_process(struct 
 	 * necessary */
 	local_bh_disable();
 	while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&tp->ucopy.prequeue)) != NULL)
-		sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+		sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
 	local_bh_enable();
 
 	/* Clear memory counter. */
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static void tcp_delack_timer(unsigned lo
 		NET_INC_STATS_BH(LINUX_MIB_TCPSCHEDULERFAILED);
 
 		while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&tp->ucopy.prequeue)) != NULL)
-			sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+			sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
 
 		tp->ucopy.memory = 0;
 	}

--

[PATCH 13/29] net: packet split receive api

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: net-ps_rx.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 5645 bytes --]

Add some packet-split receive hooks.

For one this allows to do NUMA node affine page allocs. Later on these hooks
will be extended to do emergency reserve allocations for fragments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |    8 ++------
 drivers/net/sky2.c             |   16 ++++++----------
 include/linux/skbuff.h         |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 net/core/skbuff.c              |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -4392,12 +4392,8 @@ e1000_clean_rx_irq_ps(struct e1000_adapt
 			pci_unmap_page(pdev, ps_page_dma->ps_page_dma[j],
 					PAGE_SIZE, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE);
 			ps_page_dma->ps_page_dma[j] = 0;
-			skb_fill_page_desc(skb, j, ps_page->ps_page[j], 0,
-			                   length);
+			skb_add_rx_frag(skb, j, ps_page->ps_page[j], 0, length);
 			ps_page->ps_page[j] = NULL;
-			skb->len += length;
-			skb->data_len += length;
-			skb->truesize += length;
 		}
 
 		/* strip the ethernet crc, problem is we're using pages now so
@@ -4605,7 +4601,7 @@ e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps(struct e1000_a
 			if (j < adapter->rx_ps_pages) {
 				if (likely(!ps_page->ps_page[j])) {
 					ps_page->ps_page[j] =
-						alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+						netdev_alloc_page(netdev);
 					if (unlikely(!ps_page->ps_page[j])) {
 						adapter->alloc_rx_buff_failed++;
 						goto no_buffers;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -851,6 +851,9 @@ static inline void skb_fill_page_desc(st
 	skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = i + 1;
 }
 
+extern void skb_add_rx_frag(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, struct page *page,
+			    int off, int size);
+
 #define SKB_PAGE_ASSERT(skb) 	BUG_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags)
 #define SKB_FRAG_ASSERT(skb) 	BUG_ON(skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)
 #define SKB_LINEAR_ASSERT(skb)  BUG_ON(skb_is_nonlinear(skb))
@@ -1344,6 +1347,26 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_all
 	return __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
 }
 
+extern struct page *__netdev_alloc_page(struct net_device *dev, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
+/**
+ *	netdev_alloc_page - allocate a page for ps-rx on a specific device
+ *	@dev: network device to receive on
+ *
+ * 	Allocate a new page node local to the specified device.
+ *
+ * 	%NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+ */
+static inline struct page *netdev_alloc_page(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	return __netdev_alloc_page(dev, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
+static inline void netdev_free_page(struct net_device *dev, struct page *page)
+{
+	__free_page(page);
+}
+
 /**
  *	skb_clone_writable - is the header of a clone writable
  *	@skb: buffer to check
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -263,6 +263,24 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struc
 	return skb;
 }
 
+struct page *__netdev_alloc_page(struct net_device *dev, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
+	struct page *page;
+
+	page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, 0);
+	return page;
+}
+
+void skb_add_rx_frag(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, struct page *page, int off,
+		int size)
+{
+	skb_fill_page_desc(skb, i, page, off, size);
+	skb->len += size;
+	skb->data_len += size;
+	skb->truesize += size;
+}
+
 static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
 {
 	struct sk_buff *list = *listp;
@@ -2466,6 +2484,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_pull_tail);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_add_rx_frag);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum);
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *sky2_rx_alloc(str
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < sky2->rx_nfrags; i++) {
-		struct page *page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
+		struct page *page = netdev_alloc_page(sky2->netdev);
 
 		if (!page)
 			goto free_partial;
@@ -2072,8 +2072,8 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_copy(stru
 }
 
 /* Adjust length of skb with fragments to match received data */
-static void skb_put_frags(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hdr_space,
-			  unsigned int length)
+static void skb_put_frags(struct sky2_port *sky2, struct sk_buff *skb,
+			  unsigned int hdr_space, unsigned int length)
 {
 	int i, num_frags;
 	unsigned int size;
@@ -2090,15 +2090,11 @@ static void skb_put_frags(struct sk_buff
 
 		if (length == 0) {
 			/* don't need this page */
-			__free_page(frag->page);
+			netdev_free_page(sky2->netdev, frag->page);
 			--skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags;
 		} else {
 			size = min(length, (unsigned) PAGE_SIZE);
-
-			frag->size = size;
-			skb->data_len += size;
-			skb->truesize += size;
-			skb->len += size;
+			skb_add_rx_frag(skb, i, frag->page, 0, size);
 			length -= size;
 		}
 	}
@@ -2125,7 +2121,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_new(struc
 	sky2_rx_map_skb(sky2->hw->pdev, re, hdr_space);
 
 	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags)
-		skb_put_frags(skb, hdr_space, length);
+		skb_put_frags(sky2, skb, hdr_space, length);
 	else
 		skb_put(skb, length);
 	return skb;

--

[PATCH 14/29] net: sk_allocation() - concentrate socket related allocations

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: net-sk_allocation.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 5232 bytes --]

Introduce sk_allocation(), this function allows to inject sock specific
flags to each sock related allocation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h    |    5 +++++
 net/ipv4/tcp.c        |    2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c |   11 ++++++-----
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c   |   14 +++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -2063,7 +2063,7 @@ void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk)
 	} else {
 		/* Socket is locked, keep trying until memory is available. */
 		for (;;) {
-			skb = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_KERNEL);
+			skb = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER, sk->sk_allocation);
 			if (skb)
 				break;
 			yield();
@@ -2096,7 +2096,7 @@ void tcp_send_active_reset(struct sock *
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
 	/* NOTE: No TCP options attached and we never retransmit this. */
-	skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, priority);
+	skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, sk_allocation(sk, priority));
 	if (!skb) {
 		NET_INC_STATS(LINUX_MIB_TCPABORTFAILED);
 		return;
@@ -2169,7 +2169,8 @@ struct sk_buff * tcp_make_synack(struct 
 	__u8 *md5_hash_location;
 #endif
 
-	skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15, 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	skb = sock_wmalloc(sk, MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15, 1,
+			sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -2428,7 +2429,7 @@ void tcp_send_ack(struct sock *sk)
 		 * tcp_transmit_skb() will set the ownership to this
 		 * sock.
 		 */
-		buff = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		buff = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 		if (buff == NULL) {
 			inet_csk_schedule_ack(sk);
 			inet_csk(sk)->icsk_ack.ato = TCP_ATO_MIN;
@@ -2470,7 +2471,7 @@ static int tcp_xmit_probe_skb(struct soc
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
 	/* We don't queue it, tcp_transmit_skb() sets ownership. */
-	skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -425,6 +425,11 @@ static inline int sock_flag(struct sock 
 	return test_bit(flag, &sk->sk_flags);
 }
 
+static inline gfp_t sk_allocation(struct sock *sk, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+	return gfp_mask;
+}
+
 static inline void sk_acceptq_removed(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	sk->sk_ack_backlog--;
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static int tcp_v6_md5_do_add(struct sock
 	} else {
 		/* reallocate new list if current one is full. */
 		if (!tp->md5sig_info) {
-			tp->md5sig_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*tp->md5sig_info), GFP_ATOMIC);
+			tp->md5sig_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*tp->md5sig_info),
+					sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 			if (!tp->md5sig_info) {
 				kfree(newkey);
 				return -ENOMEM;
@@ -587,7 +588,8 @@ static int tcp_v6_md5_do_add(struct sock
 		}
 		if (tp->md5sig_info->alloced6 == tp->md5sig_info->entries6) {
 			keys = kmalloc((sizeof (tp->md5sig_info->keys6[0]) *
-				       (tp->md5sig_info->entries6 + 1)), GFP_ATOMIC);
+				       (tp->md5sig_info->entries6 + 1)),
+				       sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 
 			if (!keys) {
 				tcp_free_md5sig_pool();
@@ -711,7 +713,7 @@ static int tcp_v6_parse_md5_keys (struct
 		struct tcp_sock *tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 		struct tcp_md5sig_info *p;
 
-		p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tcp_md5sig_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+		p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tcp_md5sig_info), sk->sk_allocation);
 		if (!p)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1012,7 +1014,7 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_reset(struct soc
 	 */
 
 	buff = alloc_skb(MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + tot_len,
-			 GFP_ATOMIC);
+			 sk_allocation(sk, GFP_ATOMIC));
 	if (buff == NULL)
 		return;
 
@@ -1091,10 +1093,12 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_ack(struct tcp_t
 	struct tcp_md5sig_key *key;
 	struct tcp_md5sig_key tw_key;
 #endif
+	gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_ATOMIC;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG
 	if (!tw && skb->sk) {
 		key = tcp_v6_md5_do_lookup(skb->sk, &ipv6_hdr(skb)->daddr);
+		gfp_mask = sk_allocation(skb->sk, gfp_mask);
 	} else if (tw && tw->tw_md5_keylen) {
 		tw_key.key = tw->tw_md5_key;
 		tw_key.keylen = tw->tw_md5_keylen;
@@ -1112,7 +1116,7 @@ static void tcp_v6_send_ack(struct tcp_t
 #endif
 
 	buff = alloc_skb(MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + tot_len,
-			 GFP_ATOMIC);
+			 gfp_mask);
 	if (buff == NULL)
 		return;
 
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(stru
 	/* The TCP header must be at least 32-bit aligned.  */
 	size = ALIGN(size, 4);
 
-	skb = alloc_skb_fclone(size + sk->sk_prot->max_header, gfp);
+	skb = alloc_skb_fclone(size + sk->sk_prot->max_header, sk_allocation(sk, gfp));
 	if (skb) {
 		if (sk_stream_wmem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize)) {
 			/*

--

[PATCH 15/29] netvm: network reserve infrastructure

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm-reserve.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 7304 bytes --]

Provide the basic infrastructure to reserve and charge/account network memory.

We provide the following reserve tree:

1)  total network reserve
2)    network TX reserve
3)      protocol TX pages
4)    network RX reserve
5)      SKB data reserve

[1] is used to make all the network reserves a single subtree, for easy
manipulation.

[2] and [4] are merely for eastetic reasons.

The TX pages reserve [3] is assumed bounded by it being the upper bound of
memory that can be used for sending pages (not quite true, but good enough)

The SKB reserve [5] is an aggregate reserve, which is used to charge SKB data
against in the fallback path.

The consumers for these reserves are sockets marked with:
  SOCK_MEMALLOC

Such sockets are to be used to service the VM (iow. to swap over). They
must be handled kernel side, exposing such a socket to user-space is a BUG.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h |   35 +++++++++++++++-
 net/Kconfig        |    3 +
 net/core/sock.c    |  113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>	/* struct sk_buff */
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 #include <linux/filter.h>
 
@@ -403,6 +404,7 @@ enum sock_flags {
 	SOCK_RCVTSTAMPNS, /* %SO_TIMESTAMPNS setting */
 	SOCK_LOCALROUTE, /* route locally only, %SO_DONTROUTE setting */
 	SOCK_QUEUE_SHRUNK, /* write queue has been shrunk recently */
+	SOCK_MEMALLOC, /* the VM depends on us - make sure we're serviced */
 };
 
 static inline void sock_copy_flags(struct sock *nsk, struct sock *osk)
@@ -425,9 +427,40 @@ static inline int sock_flag(struct sock 
 	return test_bit(flag, &sk->sk_flags);
 }
 
+static inline int sk_has_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
+{
+	return sock_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Guestimate the per request queue TX upper bound.
+ *
+ * Max packet size is 64k, and we need to reserve that much since the data
+ * might need to bounce it. Double it to be on the safe side.
+ */
+#define TX_RESERVE_PAGES DIV_ROUND_UP(2*65536, PAGE_SIZE)
+
+extern atomic_t memalloc_socks;
+
+extern struct mem_reserve net_rx_reserve;
+extern struct mem_reserve net_skb_reserve;
+
+static inline int sk_memalloc_socks(void)
+{
+	return atomic_read(&memalloc_socks);
+}
+
+extern int rx_emergency_get(int bytes);
+extern int rx_emergency_get_overcommit(int bytes);
+extern void rx_emergency_put(int bytes);
+
+extern int sk_adjust_memalloc(int socks, long tx_reserve_pages);
+extern int sk_set_memalloc(struct sock *sk);
+extern int sk_clear_memalloc(struct sock *sk);
+
 static inline gfp_t sk_allocation(struct sock *sk, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
-	return gfp_mask;
+	return gfp_mask | (sk->sk_allocation & __GFP_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 static inline void sk_acceptq_removed(struct sock *sk)
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
 #include <linux/tcp.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
@@ -213,6 +214,111 @@ __u32 sysctl_rmem_default __read_mostly 
 /* Maximal space eaten by iovec or ancilliary data plus some space */
 int sysctl_optmem_max __read_mostly = sizeof(unsigned long)*(2*UIO_MAXIOV+512);
 
+atomic_t memalloc_socks;
+
+static struct mem_reserve net_reserve;
+struct mem_reserve net_rx_reserve;
+struct mem_reserve net_skb_reserve;
+static struct mem_reserve net_tx_reserve;
+static struct mem_reserve net_tx_pages;
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_rx_reserve); /* modular ipv6 only */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(net_skb_reserve); /* modular ipv6 only */
+
+/*
+ * is there room for another emergency packet?
+ */
+static int __rx_emergency_get(int bytes, bool overcommit)
+{
+	return mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(&net_skb_reserve, bytes, overcommit);
+}
+
+int rx_emergency_get(int bytes)
+{
+	return __rx_emergency_get(bytes, false);
+}
+
+int rx_emergency_get_overcommit(int bytes)
+{
+	return __rx_emergency_get(bytes, true);
+}
+
+void rx_emergency_put(int bytes)
+{
+	mem_reserve_kmalloc_charge(&net_skb_reserve, -bytes, 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ *	sk_adjust_memalloc - adjust the global memalloc reserve for critical RX
+ *	@socks: number of new %SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets
+ *	@tx_resserve_pages: number of pages to (un)reserve for TX
+ *
+ *	This function adjusts the memalloc reserve based on system demand.
+ *	The RX reserve is a limit, and only added once, not for each socket.
+ *
+ *	NOTE:
+ *	   @tx_reserve_pages is an upper-bound of memory used for TX hence
+ *	   we need not account the pages like we do for RX pages.
+ */
+int sk_adjust_memalloc(int socks, long tx_reserve_pages)
+{
+	int nr_socks;
+	int err;
+
+	err = mem_reserve_pages_add(&net_tx_pages, tx_reserve_pages);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	nr_socks = atomic_read(&memalloc_socks);
+	if (!nr_socks && socks > 0)
+		err = mem_reserve_connect(&net_reserve, &mem_reserve_root);
+	nr_socks = atomic_add_return(socks, &memalloc_socks);
+	if (!nr_socks && socks)
+		err = mem_reserve_disconnect(&net_reserve);
+
+	if (err)
+		mem_reserve_pages_add(&net_tx_pages, -tx_reserve_pages);
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+/**
+ *	sk_set_memalloc - sets %SOCK_MEMALLOC
+ *	@sk: socket to set it on
+ *
+ *	Set %SOCK_MEMALLOC on a socket and increase the memalloc reserve
+ *	accordingly.
+ */
+int sk_set_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
+{
+	int set = sock_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
+#ifndef CONFIG_NETVM
+	BUG();
+#endif
+	if (!set) {
+		int err = sk_adjust_memalloc(1, 0);
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+
+		sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
+		sk->sk_allocation |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+	}
+	return !set;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_set_memalloc);
+
+int sk_clear_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
+{
+	int set = sock_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
+	if (set) {
+		sk_adjust_memalloc(-1, 0);
+		sock_reset_flag(sk, SOCK_MEMALLOC);
+		sk->sk_allocation &= ~__GFP_MEMALLOC;
+	}
+	return set;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_clear_memalloc);
+
 static int sock_set_timeout(long *timeo_p, char __user *optval, int optlen)
 {
 	struct timeval tv;
@@ -952,6 +1058,7 @@ void sk_free(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct sk_filter *filter;
 
+	sk_clear_memalloc(sk);
 	if (sk->sk_destruct)
 		sk->sk_destruct(sk);
 
@@ -1079,6 +1186,12 @@ void __init sk_init(void)
 		sysctl_wmem_max = 131071;
 		sysctl_rmem_max = 131071;
 	}
+
+	mem_reserve_init(&net_reserve, "total network reserve", NULL);
+	mem_reserve_init(&net_rx_reserve, "network RX reserve", &net_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_init(&net_skb_reserve, "SKB data reserve", &net_rx_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_init(&net_tx_reserve, "network TX reserve", &net_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_init(&net_tx_pages, "protocol TX pages", &net_tx_reserve);
 }
 
 /*
Index: linux-2.6/net/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/net/Kconfig
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ endmenu
 source "net/rfkill/Kconfig"
 source "net/9p/Kconfig"
 
+config NETVM
+	def_bool n
+
 endif   # if NET
 endmenu # Networking
 

--

[PATCH 16/29] netvm: INET reserves.

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm-reserve-inet.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 12674 bytes --]

Add reserves for INET.

The two big users seem to be the route cache and ip-fragment cache.

Reserve the route cache under generic RX reserve, its usage is bounded by
the high reclaim watermark, and thus does not need further accounting.

Reserve the ip-fragement caches under SKB data reserve, these add to the
SKB RX limit. By ensuring we can at least receive as much data as fits in
the reassmbly line we avoid fragment attack deadlocks.

Use proc conv() routines to update these limits and return -ENOMEM to user
space.

Adds to the reserve tree:

  total network reserve      
    network TX reserve       
      protocol TX pages      
    network RX reserve       
+     IPv6 route cache       
+     IPv4 route cache       
      SKB data reserve       
+       IPv6 fragment cache  
+       IPv4 fragment cache  

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c     |    7 ++++
 net/ipv4/route.c           |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/ipv6/reassembly.c      |    7 ++++
 net/ipv6/route.c           |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 6 files changed, 248 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <net/tcp.h>
 #include <net/cipso_ipv4.h>
 #include <net/inet_frag.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 static int zero;
 static int tcp_retr1_max = 255;
@@ -192,6 +193,57 @@ static int strategy_allowed_congestion_c
 
 }
 
+static int ipv4_frag_bytes;
+extern struct mem_reserve ipv4_frag_reserve;
+
+static int proc_dointvec_fragment(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int old_bytes, ret;
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv4_frag_bytes = ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh;
+       	old_bytes = ipv4_frag_bytes;
+
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv4_frag_reserve, ipv4_frag_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh = ipv4_frag_bytes;
+		else
+			ipv4_frag_bytes = old_bytes;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int sysctl_intvec_fragment(struct ctl_table *table,
+		int __user *name, int nlen,
+		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
+		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
+{
+	int old_bytes, ret;
+	int write = (newval && newlen);
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv4_frag_bytes = ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh;
+       	old_bytes = ipv4_frag_bytes;
+
+	ret = sysctl_intvec(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv4_frag_reserve, ipv4_frag_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh = ipv4_frag_bytes;
+		else
+			ipv4_frag_bytes = old_bytes;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV4_TCP_TIMESTAMPS,
@@ -285,10 +337,11 @@ static struct ctl_table ipv4_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV4_IPFRAG_HIGH_THRESH,
 		.procname	= "ipfrag_high_thresh",
-		.data		= &ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh,
+		.data		= &ipv4_frag_bytes,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_fragment,
+		.strategy	= &sysctl_intvec_fragment,
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV4_IPFRAG_LOW_THRESH,
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
@@ -13,6 +13,58 @@
 #include <net/ipv6.h>
 #include <net/addrconf.h>
 #include <net/inet_frag.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
+
+static int ipv6_frag_bytes;
+extern struct mem_reserve ipv6_frag_reserve;
+
+static int proc_dointvec_fragment(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int old_bytes, ret;
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv6_frag_bytes = ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh;
+       	old_bytes = ipv6_frag_bytes;
+
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv6_frag_reserve, ipv6_frag_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh = ipv6_frag_bytes;
+		else
+			ipv6_frag_bytes = old_bytes;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int sysctl_intvec_fragment(struct ctl_table *table,
+		int __user *name, int nlen,
+		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
+		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
+{
+	int old_bytes, ret;
+	int write = (newval && newlen);
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv6_frag_bytes = ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh;
+       	old_bytes = ipv6_frag_bytes;
+
+	ret = sysctl_intvec(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv6_frag_reserve, ipv6_frag_bytes);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh = ipv6_frag_bytes;
+		else
+			ipv6_frag_bytes = old_bytes;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
 
 static ctl_table ipv6_table[] = {
 	{
@@ -40,10 +92,11 @@ static ctl_table ipv6_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_HIGH_THRESH,
 		.procname	= "ip6frag_high_thresh",
-		.data		= &ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh,
+		.data		= &ipv6_frag_bytes,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_fragment,
+		.strategy	= &sysctl_intvec_fragment,
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV6_IP6FRAG_LOW_THRESH,
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include <linux/udp.h>
 #include <linux/inet.h>
 #include <linux/netfilter_ipv4.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 /* NOTE. Logic of IP defragmentation is parallel to corresponding IPv6
  * code now. If you change something here, _PLEASE_ update ipv6/reassembly.c
@@ -607,6 +608,8 @@ int ip_defrag(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 u
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
+struct mem_reserve ipv4_frag_reserve;
+
 void __init ipfrag_init(void)
 {
 	ip4_frags.ctl = &ip4_frags_ctl;
@@ -618,6 +621,10 @@ void __init ipfrag_init(void)
 	ip4_frags.match = ip4_frag_match;
 	ip4_frags.frag_expire = ip_expire;
 	inet_frags_init(&ip4_frags);
+
+	mem_reserve_init(&ipv4_frag_reserve, "IPv4 fragment cache",
+			 &net_skb_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv4_frag_reserve, ip4_frags_ctl.high_thresh);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_defrag);
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv6/reassembly.c
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 #include <linux/random.h>
 #include <linux/jhash.h>
 #include <linux/skbuff.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 #include <net/sock.h>
 #include <net/snmp.h>
@@ -632,6 +633,8 @@ static struct inet6_protocol frag_protoc
 	.flags		=	INET6_PROTO_NOPOLICY,
 };
 
+struct mem_reserve ipv6_frag_reserve;
+
 int __init ipv6_frag_init(void)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -650,6 +653,10 @@ int __init ipv6_frag_init(void)
 	inet_frags_init(&ip6_frags);
 out:
 	return ret;
+
+	mem_reserve_init(&ipv6_frag_reserve, "IPv6 fragment cache",
+			&net_skb_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_kmalloc_set(&ipv6_frag_reserve, ip6_frags_ctl.high_thresh);
 }
 
 void ipv6_frag_exit(void)
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv4/route.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #endif
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 
 #define RT_FL_TOS(oldflp) \
     ((u32)(oldflp->fl4_tos & (IPTOS_RT_MASK | RTO_ONLINK)))
@@ -2815,6 +2816,59 @@ static int ipv4_sysctl_rtcache_flush_str
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int ipv4_route_size;
+static struct mem_reserve ipv4_route_reserve;
+
+static int proc_dointvec_route(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int old_size, ret;
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv4_route_size = ip_rt_max_size;
+       	old_size = ipv4_route_size;
+
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv4_route_reserve,
+				ipv4_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ipv4_route_size);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip_rt_max_size = ipv4_route_size;
+		else
+			ipv4_route_size = old_size;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int sysctl_intvec_route(struct ctl_table *table,
+		int __user *name, int nlen,
+		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
+		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
+{
+	int old_size, ret;
+	int write = (newval && newlen);
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv4_route_size = ip_rt_max_size;
+       	old_size = ipv4_route_size;
+
+	ret = sysctl_intvec(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv4_route_reserve,
+				ipv4_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ipv4_route_size);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip_rt_max_size = ipv4_route_size;
+		else
+			ipv4_route_size = old_size;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 ctl_table ipv4_route_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name 	= NET_IPV4_ROUTE_FLUSH,
@@ -2854,10 +2908,11 @@ ctl_table ipv4_route_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	= NET_IPV4_ROUTE_MAX_SIZE,
 		.procname	= "max_size",
-		.data		= &ip_rt_max_size,
+		.data		= &ipv4_route_size,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
 		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_route,
+		.strategy	= &sysctl_intvec_route,
 	},
 	{
 		/*  Deprecated. Use gc_min_interval_ms */
@@ -3032,6 +3087,11 @@ int __init ip_rt_init(void)
 	ipv4_dst_ops.gc_thresh = (rt_hash_mask + 1);
 	ip_rt_max_size = (rt_hash_mask + 1) * 16;
 
+	mem_reserve_init(&ipv4_route_reserve, "IPv4 route cache",
+			&net_rx_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv4_route_reserve,
+			ipv4_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ip_rt_max_size);
+
 	devinet_init();
 	ip_fib_init();
 
Index: linux-2.6/net/ipv6/route.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <linux/in6.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/if_arp.h>
+#include <linux/reserve.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
@@ -2405,6 +2406,59 @@ int ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush(ctl_table 
 		return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+static int ipv6_route_size;
+static struct mem_reserve ipv6_route_reserve;
+
+static int proc_dointvec_route(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+		struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+		loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	int old_size, ret;
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv6_route_size = ip6_rt_max_size;
+       	old_size = ipv6_route_size;
+
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv6_route_reserve,
+				ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ipv6_route_size);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip6_rt_max_size = ipv6_route_size;
+		else
+			ipv6_route_size = old_size;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int sysctl_intvec_route(struct ctl_table *table,
+		int __user *name, int nlen,
+		void __user *oldval, size_t __user *oldlenp,
+		void __user *newval, size_t newlen)
+{
+	int old_size, ret;
+	int write = (newval && newlen);
+
+	if (!write)
+		ipv6_route_size = ip6_rt_max_size;
+       	old_size = ipv6_route_size;
+
+	ret = sysctl_intvec(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen);
+
+	if (!ret && write) {
+		ret = mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv6_route_reserve,
+				ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ipv6_route_size);
+		if (!ret)
+			ip6_rt_max_size = ipv6_route_size;
+		else
+			ipv6_route_size = old_size;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 ctl_table ipv6_route_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	=	"flush",
@@ -2424,10 +2478,11 @@ ctl_table ipv6_route_table[] = {
 	{
 		.ctl_name	=	NET_IPV6_ROUTE_MAX_SIZE,
 		.procname	=	"max_size",
-		.data		=	&ip6_rt_max_size,
+		.data		=	&ipv6_route_size,
 		.maxlen		=	sizeof(int),
 		.mode		=	0644,
-		.proc_handler	=	&proc_dointvec,
+         	.proc_handler	=	&proc_dointvec_route,
+		.strategy	= 	&sysctl_intvec_route,
 	},
 	{
 		.ctl_name	=	NET_IPV6_ROUTE_GC_MIN_INTERVAL,
@@ -2509,6 +2564,11 @@ int __init ip6_route_init(void)
 
 	ip6_dst_blackhole_ops.kmem_cachep = ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep;
 
+	mem_reserve_init(&ipv6_route_reserve, "IPv6 route cache",
+			&net_rx_reserve);
+	mem_reserve_kmem_cache_set(&ipv6_route_reserve,
+			ip6_dst_ops.kmem_cachep, ip6_rt_max_size);
+
 	ret = fib6_init();
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_kmem_cache;

--

[PATCH 17/29] netvm: hook skb allocation to reserves

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm-skbuff-reserve.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 14946 bytes --]

Change the skb allocation api to indicate RX usage and use this to fall back to
the reserve when needed. SKBs allocated from the reserve are tagged in
skb->emergency.

Teach all other skb ops about emergency skbs and the reserve accounting.

Use the (new) packet split API to allocate and track fragment pages from the
emergency reserve. Do this using an atomic counter in page->index. This is
needed because the fragments have a different sharing semantic than that
indicated by skb_shinfo()->dataref. 

Note that the decision to distinguish between regular and emergency SKBs allows
the accounting overhead to be limited to the later kind.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mm_types.h |    1 
 include/linux/skbuff.h   |   26 +++++--
 net/core/skbuff.c        |  173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ struct sk_buff {
 	__u16			tc_verd;	/* traffic control verdict */
 #endif
 #endif
-	/* 2 byte hole */
+	__u8 			emergency:1;
+				/* 7 bit hole */
+	/* 1 byte hole */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA
 	dma_cookie_t		dma_cookie;
@@ -345,10 +347,22 @@ struct sk_buff {
 
 #include <asm/system.h>
 
+#define SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE	0x01
+#define SKB_ALLOC_RX		0x02
+
+static inline bool skb_emergency(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	return unlikely(skb->emergency);
+#else
+	return false;
+#endif
+}
+
 extern void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern void	       __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size,
-				   gfp_t priority, int fclone, int node);
+				   gfp_t priority, int flags, int node);
 static inline struct sk_buff *alloc_skb(unsigned int size,
 					gfp_t priority)
 {
@@ -358,7 +372,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *alloc_skb(
 static inline struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_fclone(unsigned int size,
 					       gfp_t priority)
 {
-	return __alloc_skb(size, priority, 1, -1);
+	return __alloc_skb(size, priority, SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE, -1);
 }
 
 extern struct sk_buff *skb_morph(struct sk_buff *dst, struct sk_buff *src);
@@ -1303,7 +1317,8 @@ static inline void __skb_queue_purge(str
 static inline struct sk_buff *__dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length,
 					      gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
-	struct sk_buff *skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
+	struct sk_buff *skb =
+		__alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, -1);
 	if (likely(skb))
 		skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
 	return skb;
@@ -1349,6 +1364,7 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_all
 }
 
 extern struct page *__netdev_alloc_page(struct net_device *dev, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+extern void __netdev_free_page(struct net_device *dev, struct page *page);
 
 /**
  *	netdev_alloc_page - allocate a page for ps-rx on a specific device
@@ -1365,7 +1381,7 @@ static inline struct page *netdev_alloc_
 
 static inline void netdev_free_page(struct net_device *dev, struct page *page)
 {
-	__free_page(page);
+	__netdev_free_page(dev, page);
 }
 
 /**
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -179,21 +179,28 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_truesize_bug);
  *	%GFP_ATOMIC.
  */
 struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
-			    int fclone, int node)
+			    int flags, int node)
 {
 	struct kmem_cache *cache;
 	struct skb_shared_info *shinfo;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	u8 *data;
+	int emergency = 0, memalloc = sk_memalloc_socks();
 
-	cache = fclone ? skbuff_fclone_cache : skbuff_head_cache;
+	size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);
+	cache = (flags & SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE)
+		? skbuff_fclone_cache : skbuff_head_cache;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	if (memalloc && (flags & SKB_ALLOC_RX))
+		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN;
 
+retry_alloc:
+#endif
 	/* Get the HEAD */
 	skb = kmem_cache_alloc_node(cache, gfp_mask & ~__GFP_DMA, node);
 	if (!skb)
-		goto out;
+		goto noskb;
 
-	size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);
 	data = kmalloc_node_track_caller(size + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info),
 			gfp_mask, node);
 	if (!data)
@@ -203,6 +210,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int
 	 * See comment in sk_buff definition, just before the 'tail' member
 	 */
 	memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, tail));
+	skb->emergency = emergency;
 	skb->truesize = size + sizeof(struct sk_buff);
 	atomic_set(&skb->users, 1);
 	skb->head = data;
@@ -219,7 +227,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int
 	shinfo->ip6_frag_id = 0;
 	shinfo->frag_list = NULL;
 
-	if (fclone) {
+	if (flags & SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE) {
 		struct sk_buff *child = skb + 1;
 		atomic_t *fclone_ref = (atomic_t *) (child + 1);
 
@@ -227,12 +235,31 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int
 		atomic_set(fclone_ref, 1);
 
 		child->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE;
+		child->emergency = skb->emergency;
 	}
 out:
 	return skb;
+
 nodata:
 	kmem_cache_free(cache, skb);
 	skb = NULL;
+noskb:
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	/* Attempt emergency allocation when RX skb. */
+	if (likely(!(flags & SKB_ALLOC_RX) || !memalloc))
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!emergency) {
+		if (rx_emergency_get(size)) {
+			gfp_mask &= ~(__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN);
+			gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+			emergency = 1;
+			goto retry_alloc;
+		}
+	} else
+		rx_emergency_put(size);
+#endif
+
 	goto out;
 }
 
@@ -255,7 +282,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struc
 	int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-	skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask, 0, node);
+	skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask, SKB_ALLOC_RX, node);
 	if (likely(skb)) {
 		skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
 		skb->dev = dev;
@@ -268,10 +295,34 @@ struct page *__netdev_alloc_page(struct 
 	int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
 	struct page *page;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN;
+#endif
+
 	page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, 0);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	if (!page && rx_emergency_get(PAGE_SIZE)) {
+		gfp_mask &= ~(__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+		page = alloc_pages_node(node, gfp_mask, 0);
+		if (!page)
+			rx_emergency_put(PAGE_SIZE);
+	}
+#endif
+
 	return page;
 }
 
+void __netdev_free_page(struct net_device *dev, struct page *page)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	if (unlikely(page->reserve))
+		rx_emergency_put(PAGE_SIZE);
+#endif
+	__free_page(page);
+}
+
 void skb_add_rx_frag(struct sk_buff *skb, int i, struct page *page, int off,
 		int size)
 {
@@ -279,6 +330,34 @@ void skb_add_rx_frag(struct sk_buff *skb
 	skb->len += size;
 	skb->data_len += size;
 	skb->truesize += size;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+	/*
+	 * Fix-up the emergency accounting; make sure all pages match
+	 * skb->emergency.
+	 *
+	 * This relies on page->reserve to be preserved between
+	 * the call to __netdev_alloc_page() and this call.
+	 */
+	if (skb_emergency(skb)) {
+		/*
+		 * If the page was not an emergency alloc (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK)
+		 * we can use overcommit accounting, since we already have the
+		 * memory.
+		 */
+		if (!page->reserve)
+			rx_emergency_get_overcommit(PAGE_SIZE);
+		atomic_set(&page->frag_count, 1);
+	} else if (unlikely(page->reserve)) {
+		/*
+		 * Rare case; the skb wasn't allocated under pressure but
+		 * the page was. We need to return the page. This can offset
+		 * the accounting a little, but its a constant shift, it does
+		 * not accumulate.
+		 */
+		rx_emergency_put(PAGE_SIZE);
+	}
+#endif
 }
 
 static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
@@ -307,21 +386,45 @@ static void skb_clone_fraglist(struct sk
 		skb_get(list);
 }
 
+static inline void skb_get_page(struct sk_buff *skb, struct page *page)
+{
+	get_page(page);
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		atomic_inc(&page->frag_count);
+}
+
+static inline void skb_put_page(struct sk_buff *skb, struct page *page)
+{
+	if (skb_emergency(skb) && atomic_dec_and_test(&page->frag_count))
+		rx_emergency_put(PAGE_SIZE);
+	put_page(page);
+}
+
 static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	if (!skb->cloned ||
 	    !atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
 			       &skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref)) {
+		int size;
+
+#ifdef NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET
+		size = skb->end;
+#else
+		size = skb->end - skb->head;
+#endif
+
 		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags) {
 			int i;
 			for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
-				put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+				skb_put_page(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 		}
 
 		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)
 			skb_drop_fraglist(skb);
 
 		kfree(skb->head);
+		if (skb_emergency(skb))
+			rx_emergency_put(size);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -442,6 +545,7 @@ static void __copy_skb_header(struct sk_
 #if defined(CONFIG_IP_VS) || defined(CONFIG_IP_VS_MODULE)
 	new->ipvs_property	= old->ipvs_property;
 #endif
+	new->emergency		= old->emergency;
 	new->protocol		= old->protocol;
 	new->mark		= old->mark;
 	__nf_copy(new, old);
@@ -529,6 +633,9 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff
 		n->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_CLONE;
 		atomic_inc(fclone_ref);
 	} else {
+		if (skb_emergency(skb))
+			gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+
 		n = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_head_cache, gfp_mask);
 		if (!n)
 			return NULL;
@@ -560,6 +667,14 @@ static void copy_skb_header(struct sk_bu
 	skb_shinfo(new)->gso_type = skb_shinfo(old)->gso_type;
 }
 
+static inline int skb_alloc_rx_flag(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		return SKB_ALLOC_RX;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  *	skb_copy	-	create private copy of an sk_buff
  *	@skb: buffer to copy
@@ -580,15 +695,17 @@ static void copy_skb_header(struct sk_bu
 struct sk_buff *skb_copy(const struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	int headerlen = skb->data - skb->head;
+	int size;
 	/*
 	 *	Allocate the copy buffer
 	 */
 	struct sk_buff *n;
 #ifdef NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET
-	n = alloc_skb(skb->end + skb->data_len, gfp_mask);
+	size = skb->end + skb->data_len;
 #else
-	n = alloc_skb(skb->end - skb->head + skb->data_len, gfp_mask);
+	size = skb->end - skb->head + skb->data_len;
 #endif
+	n = __alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask, skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb), -1);
 	if (!n)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -623,12 +740,14 @@ struct sk_buff *pskb_copy(struct sk_buff
 	/*
 	 *	Allocate the copy buffer
 	 */
+	int size;
 	struct sk_buff *n;
 #ifdef NET_SKBUFF_DATA_USES_OFFSET
-	n = alloc_skb(skb->end, gfp_mask);
+	size = skb->end;
 #else
-	n = alloc_skb(skb->end - skb->head, gfp_mask);
+	size = skb->end - skb->head;
 #endif
+	n = __alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask, skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb), -1);
 	if (!n)
 		goto out;
 
@@ -647,8 +766,9 @@ struct sk_buff *pskb_copy(struct sk_buff
 		int i;
 
 		for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
-			skb_shinfo(n)->frags[i] = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
-			get_page(skb_shinfo(n)->frags[i].page);
+			skb_frag_t *frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
+			skb_shinfo(n)->frags[i] = *frag;
+			skb_get_page(n, frag->page);
 		}
 		skb_shinfo(n)->nr_frags = i;
 	}
@@ -696,6 +816,14 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb
 
 	size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);
 
+	if (skb_emergency(skb)) {
+		if (rx_emergency_get(size))
+			gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
+		else
+			goto nodata;
+	} else
+		gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOMEMALLOC;
+
 	data = kmalloc(size + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info), gfp_mask);
 	if (!data)
 		goto nodata;
@@ -711,7 +839,7 @@ int pskb_expand_head(struct sk_buff *skb
 	       sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++)
-		get_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+		skb_get_page(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 
 	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)
 		skb_clone_fraglist(skb);
@@ -790,8 +918,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_copy_expand(const st
 	/*
 	 *	Allocate the copy buffer
 	 */
-	struct sk_buff *n = alloc_skb(newheadroom + skb->len + newtailroom,
-				      gfp_mask);
+	struct sk_buff *n = __alloc_skb(newheadroom + skb->len + newtailroom,
+				        gfp_mask, skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb), -1);
 	int oldheadroom = skb_headroom(skb);
 	int head_copy_len, head_copy_off;
 	int off;
@@ -908,7 +1036,7 @@ drop_pages:
 		skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = i;
 
 		for (; i < nfrags; i++)
-			put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+			skb_put_page(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 
 		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list)
 			skb_drop_fraglist(skb);
@@ -1077,7 +1205,7 @@ pull_pages:
 	k = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags; i++) {
 		if (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size <= eat) {
-			put_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+			skb_put_page(skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
 			eat -= skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size;
 		} else {
 			skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[k] = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
@@ -1849,6 +1977,7 @@ static inline void skb_split_no_header(s
 			skb_shinfo(skb1)->frags[k] = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
 
 			if (pos < len) {
+				struct page *page = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page;
 				/* Split frag.
 				 * We have two variants in this case:
 				 * 1. Move all the frag to the second
@@ -1857,7 +1986,7 @@ static inline void skb_split_no_header(s
 				 *    where splitting is expensive.
 				 * 2. Split is accurately. We make this.
 				 */
-				get_page(skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].page);
+				skb_get_page(skb1, page);
 				skb_shinfo(skb1)->frags[0].page_offset += len - pos;
 				skb_shinfo(skb1)->frags[0].size -= len - pos;
 				skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i].size	= len - pos;
@@ -2188,7 +2317,8 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_bu
 		if (hsize > len || !sg)
 			hsize = len;
 
-		nskb = alloc_skb(hsize + doffset + headroom, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		nskb = __alloc_skb(hsize + doffset + headroom, GFP_ATOMIC,
+				   skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb), -1);
 		if (unlikely(!nskb))
 			goto err;
 
@@ -2233,7 +2363,7 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_segment(struct sk_bu
 			BUG_ON(i >= nfrags);
 
 			*frag = skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[i];
-			get_page(frag->page);
+			skb_get_page(nskb, frag->page);
 			size = frag->size;
 
 			if (pos < offset) {
@@ -2485,6 +2615,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_pull_tail);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_free_page);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_add_rx_frag);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ struct page {
 		pgoff_t index;		/* Our offset within mapping. */
 		void *freelist;		/* SLUB: freelist req. slab lock */
 		int reserve;		/* page_alloc: page is a reserve page */
+		atomic_t frag_count;	/* skb fragment use count */
 	};
 	struct list_head lru;		/* Pageout list, eg. active_list
 					 * protected by zone->lru_lock !

--

[PATCH 18/29] netvm: filter emergency skbs.

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm-sk_filter.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 765 bytes --]

Toss all emergency packets not for a SOCK_MEMALLOC socket. This ensures our
precious memory reserve doesn't get stuck waiting for user-space.

The correctness of this approach relies on the fact that networks must be
assumed lossy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -930,6 +930,9 @@ static inline int sk_filter(struct sock 
 {
 	int err;
 	struct sk_filter *filter;
+
+	if (skb_emergency(skb) && !sk_has_memalloc(sk))
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	
 	err = security_sock_rcv_skb(sk, skb);
 	if (err)

--

[PATCH 19/29] netvm: prevent a TCP specific deadlock

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm-tcp-deadlock.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2442 bytes --]

It could happen that all !SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets have buffered so much data
that we're over the global rmem limit. This will prevent SOCK_MEMALLOC buffers
from receiving data, which will prevent userspace from running, which is needed
to reduce the buffered data.

Fix this by exempting the SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets from the rmem limit.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h |    7 ++++---
 net/core/stream.c  |    5 +++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -756,7 +756,8 @@ static inline struct inode *SOCK_INODE(s
 }
 
 extern void __sk_stream_mem_reclaim(struct sock *sk);
-extern int sk_stream_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int size, int kind);
+extern int sk_stream_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
+		int size, int kind);
 
 #define SK_STREAM_MEM_QUANTUM ((int)PAGE_SIZE)
 
@@ -774,13 +775,13 @@ static inline void sk_stream_mem_reclaim
 static inline int sk_stream_rmem_schedule(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	return (int)skb->truesize <= sk->sk_forward_alloc ||
-		sk_stream_mem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize, 1);
+		sk_stream_mem_schedule(sk, skb, skb->truesize, 1);
 }
 
 static inline int sk_stream_wmem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int size)
 {
 	return size <= sk->sk_forward_alloc ||
-	       sk_stream_mem_schedule(sk, size, 0);
+	       sk_stream_mem_schedule(sk, NULL, size, 0);
 }
 
 /* Used by processes to "lock" a socket state, so that
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/stream.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/stream.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/stream.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ void __sk_stream_mem_reclaim(struct sock
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sk_stream_mem_reclaim);
 
-int sk_stream_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int size, int kind)
+int sk_stream_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int size, int kind)
 {
 	int amt = sk_stream_pages(size);
 	struct proto *prot = sk->sk_prot;
@@ -225,7 +225,8 @@ int sk_stream_mem_schedule(struct sock *
 	/* Over hard limit. */
 	if (atomic_read(prot->memory_allocated) > prot->sysctl_mem[2]) {
 		prot->enter_memory_pressure();
-		goto suppress_allocation;
+		if (!skb || (skb && !skb_emergency(skb)))
+			goto suppress_allocation;
 	}
 
 	/* Under pressure. */

--

[PATCH 20/29] netfilter: NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: emergency-nf_queue.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 835 bytes --]

Avoid memory getting stuck waiting for userspace, drop all emergency packets.
This of course requires the regular storage route to not include an NF_QUEUE
target ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 net/netfilter/core.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/net/netfilter/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/netfilter/core.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/netfilter/core.c
@@ -176,9 +176,12 @@ next_hook:
 		ret = 1;
 		goto unlock;
 	} else if (verdict == NF_DROP) {
+drop:
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		ret = -EPERM;
 	} else if ((verdict & NF_VERDICT_MASK) == NF_QUEUE) {
+		if (skb_emergency(*pskb))
+			goto drop;
 		if (!nf_queue(skb, elem, pf, hook, indev, outdev, okfn,
 			      verdict >> NF_VERDICT_BITS))
 			goto next_hook;

--

[PATCH 21/29] netvm: skb processing

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: netvm.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 4835 bytes --]

In order to make sure emergency packets receive all memory needed to proceed
ensure processing of emergency SKBs happens under PF_MEMALLOC.

Use the (new) sk_backlog_rcv() wrapper to ensure this for backlog processing.

Skip taps, since those are user-space again.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/net/sock.h |    5 ++++
 net/core/dev.c     |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 net/core/sock.c    |   18 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/dev.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2008,6 +2008,30 @@ out:
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Filter the protocols for which the reserves are adequate.
+ *
+ * Before adding a protocol make sure that it is either covered by the existing
+ * reserves, or add reserves covering the memory need of the new protocol's
+ * packet processing.
+ */
+static int skb_emergency_protocol(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		switch(skb->protocol) {
+		case __constant_htons(ETH_P_ARP):
+		case __constant_htons(ETH_P_IP):
+		case __constant_htons(ETH_P_IPV6):
+		case __constant_htons(ETH_P_8021Q):
+			break;
+
+		default:
+			return 0;
+		}
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
 /**
  *	netif_receive_skb - process receive buffer from network
  *	@skb: buffer to process
@@ -2029,10 +2053,23 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
 	struct net_device *orig_dev;
 	int ret = NET_RX_DROP;
 	__be16 type;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
+
+	/* Emergency skb are special, they should
+	 *  - be delivered to SOCK_MEMALLOC sockets only
+	 *  - stay away from userspace
+	 *  - have bounded memory usage
+	 *
+	 * Use PF_MEMALLOC as a poor mans memory pool - the grouping kind.
+	 * This saves us from propagating the allocation context down to all
+	 * allocation sites.
+	 */
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
 
 	/* if we've gotten here through NAPI, check netpoll */
 	if (netpoll_receive_skb(skb))
-		return NET_RX_DROP;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (!skb->tstamp.tv64)
 		net_timestamp(skb);
@@ -2043,7 +2080,7 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
 	orig_dev = skb_bond(skb);
 
 	if (!orig_dev)
-		return NET_RX_DROP;
+		goto out;
 
 	__get_cpu_var(netdev_rx_stat).total++;
 
@@ -2062,6 +2099,9 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
 	}
 #endif
 
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		goto skip_taps;
+
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(ptype, &ptype_all, list) {
 		if (!ptype->dev || ptype->dev == skb->dev) {
 			if (pt_prev)
@@ -2070,19 +2110,23 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
 		}
 	}
 
+skip_taps:
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
 	skb = handle_ing(skb, &pt_prev, &ret, orig_dev);
 	if (!skb)
-		goto out;
+		goto unlock;
 ncls:
 #endif
 
+	if (!skb_emergency_protocol(skb))
+		goto drop;
+
 	skb = handle_bridge(skb, &pt_prev, &ret, orig_dev);
 	if (!skb)
-		goto out;
+		goto unlock;
 	skb = handle_macvlan(skb, &pt_prev, &ret, orig_dev);
 	if (!skb)
-		goto out;
+		goto unlock;
 
 	type = skb->protocol;
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(ptype,
@@ -2098,6 +2142,7 @@ ncls:
 	if (pt_prev) {
 		ret = pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
 	} else {
+drop:
 		kfree_skb(skb);
 		/* Jamal, now you will not able to escape explaining
 		 * me how you were going to use this. :-)
@@ -2105,8 +2150,10 @@ ncls:
 		ret = NET_RX_DROP;
 	}
 
-out:
+unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
+out:
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 	return ret;
 }
 
Index: linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/net/sock.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/net/sock.h
@@ -529,8 +529,13 @@ static inline void sk_add_backlog(struct
 	skb->next = NULL;
 }
 
+extern int __sk_backlog_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
+
 static inline int sk_backlog_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	if (skb_emergency(skb))
+		return __sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+
 	return sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
 }
 
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/sock.c
@@ -319,6 +319,24 @@ int sk_clear_memalloc(struct sock *sk)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sk_clear_memalloc);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NETVM
+int __sk_backlog_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	int ret;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
+
+	/* these should have been dropped before queueing */
+	BUG_ON(!sk_has_memalloc(sk));
+
+	current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+	ret = sk->sk_backlog_rcv(sk, skb);
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sk_backlog_rcv);
+#endif
+
 static int sock_set_timeout(long *timeo_p, char __user *optval, int optlen)
 {
 	struct timeval tv;

--

[PATCH 22/29] mm: prepare swap entry methods for use in page methods

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-swap_entry_methods.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 5160 bytes --]

Move around the swap entry methods in preparation for use from
page methods.

Also provide a function to obtain the swap_info_struct backing
a swap cache page.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mm.h      |    8 +++++++
 include/linux/swap.h    |   49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/swapops.h |   44 -------------------------------------------
 mm/swapfile.c           |    1 
 4 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/debug_locks.h>
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
 
 struct mempolicy;
 struct anon_vma;
@@ -600,6 +601,13 @@ static inline struct address_space *page
 	return mapping;
 }
 
+static inline struct swap_info_struct *page_swap_info(struct page *page)
+{
+	swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
+	BUG_ON(!PageSwapCache(page));
+	return get_swap_info_struct(swp_type(swap));
+}
+
 static inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
 {
 	return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/swap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/swap.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -80,6 +80,50 @@ typedef struct {
 } swp_entry_t;
 
 /*
+ * swapcache pages are stored in the swapper_space radix tree.  We want to
+ * get good packing density in that tree, so the index should be dense in
+ * the low-order bits.
+ *
+ * We arrange the `type' and `offset' fields so that `type' is at the five
+ * high-order bits of the swp_entry_t and `offset' is right-aligned in the
+ * remaining bits.
+ *
+ * swp_entry_t's are *never* stored anywhere in their arch-dependent format.
+ */
+#define SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(e)	(sizeof(e.val) * 8 - MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT)
+#define SWP_OFFSET_MASK(e)	((1UL << SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(e)) - 1)
+
+/*
+ * Store a type+offset into a swp_entry_t in an arch-independent format
+ */
+static inline swp_entry_t swp_entry(unsigned long type, pgoff_t offset)
+{
+	swp_entry_t ret;
+
+	ret.val = (type << SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(ret)) |
+			(offset & SWP_OFFSET_MASK(ret));
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Extract the `type' field from a swp_entry_t.  The swp_entry_t is in
+ * arch-independent format
+ */
+static inline unsigned swp_type(swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+	return (entry.val >> SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(entry));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Extract the `offset' field from a swp_entry_t.  The swp_entry_t is in
+ * arch-independent format
+ */
+static inline pgoff_t swp_offset(swp_entry_t entry)
+{
+	return entry.val & SWP_OFFSET_MASK(entry);
+}
+
+/*
  * current->reclaim_state points to one of these when a task is running
  * memory reclaim
  */
@@ -321,6 +365,11 @@ static inline struct page *lookup_swap_c
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+static inline struct swap_info_struct *get_swap_info_struct(unsigned type)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 #define can_share_swap_page(p)			(page_mapcount(p) == 1)
 
 static inline int move_to_swap_cache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/swapops.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/swapops.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/swapops.h
@@ -1,47 +1,3 @@
-/*
- * swapcache pages are stored in the swapper_space radix tree.  We want to
- * get good packing density in that tree, so the index should be dense in
- * the low-order bits.
- *
- * We arrange the `type' and `offset' fields so that `type' is at the five
- * high-order bits of the swp_entry_t and `offset' is right-aligned in the
- * remaining bits.
- *
- * swp_entry_t's are *never* stored anywhere in their arch-dependent format.
- */
-#define SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(e)	(sizeof(e.val) * 8 - MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT)
-#define SWP_OFFSET_MASK(e)	((1UL << SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(e)) - 1)
-
-/*
- * Store a type+offset into a swp_entry_t in an arch-independent format
- */
-static inline swp_entry_t swp_entry(unsigned long type, pgoff_t offset)
-{
-	swp_entry_t ret;
-
-	ret.val = (type << SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(ret)) |
-			(offset & SWP_OFFSET_MASK(ret));
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/*
- * Extract the `type' field from a swp_entry_t.  The swp_entry_t is in
- * arch-independent format
- */
-static inline unsigned swp_type(swp_entry_t entry)
-{
-	return (entry.val >> SWP_TYPE_SHIFT(entry));
-}
-
-/*
- * Extract the `offset' field from a swp_entry_t.  The swp_entry_t is in
- * arch-independent format
- */
-static inline pgoff_t swp_offset(swp_entry_t entry)
-{
-	return entry.val & SWP_OFFSET_MASK(entry);
-}
-
 /* check whether a pte points to a swap entry */
 static inline int is_swap_pte(pte_t pte)
 {
Index: linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/swapfile.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1795,6 +1795,7 @@ get_swap_info_struct(unsigned type)
 {
 	return &swap_info[type];
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_swap_info_struct);
 
 /*
  * swap_lock prevents swap_map being freed. Don't grab an extra

--

[PATCH 23/29] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-swapfile.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 11689 bytes --]

New addres_space_operations methods are added:
  int swapfile(struct address_space *, int);
  int swap_out(struct file *, struct page *, struct writeback_control *);
  int swap_in(struct file *, struct page *);

When during sys_swapon() the swapfile() method is found and returns no error
the swapper_space.a_ops will proxy to sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops, and
make use of swap_{out,in}() to write/read swapcache pages.

The swapfile method will be used to communicate to the address_space that the
VM relies on it, and the address_space should take adequate measures (like 
reserving memory for mempools or the like).

This new interface can be used to obviate the need for ->bmap in the swapfile
code. A filesystem would need to load (and maybe even allocate) the full block
map for a file into memory and pin it there on ->swapfile(,1) so that
->swap_{out,in}() have instant access to it. It can be released on
->swapfile(,0).

The reason to provide ->swap_{out,in}() over using {write,read}page() is to
 1) make a distinction between swapcache and pagecache pages, and
 2) to provide a struct file * for credential context (normally not needed
    in the context of writepage, as the page content is normally dirtied
    using either of the following interfaces:
      write_{begin,end}()
      {prepare,commit}_write()
      page_mkwrite()
    which do have the file context.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |   19 ++++++++++++
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |   17 +++++++++++
 include/linux/buffer_head.h       |    2 -
 include/linux/fs.h                |    8 +++++
 include/linux/swap.h              |    3 +
 mm/Kconfig                        |    3 +
 mm/page_io.c                      |   58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/swap_state.c                   |    5 +++
 mm/swapfile.c                     |   22 +++++++++++++-
 9 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/swap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/swap.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ enum {
 	SWP_USED	= (1 << 0),	/* is slot in swap_info[] used? */
 	SWP_WRITEOK	= (1 << 1),	/* ok to write to this swap?	*/
 	SWP_ACTIVE	= (SWP_USED | SWP_WRITEOK),
+	SWP_FILE	= (1 << 2),	/* file swap area */
 					/* add others here before... */
 	SWP_SCANNING	= (1 << 8),	/* refcount in scan_swap_map */
 };
@@ -261,6 +262,8 @@ extern void swap_unplug_io_fn(struct bac
 /* linux/mm/page_io.c */
 extern int swap_readpage(struct file *, struct page *);
 extern int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
+extern void swap_sync_page(struct page *page);
+extern int swap_set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
 extern void end_swap_bio_read(struct bio *bio, int err);
 
 /* linux/mm/swap_state.c */
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_io.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_io.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_io.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
+#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 
 static struct bio *get_swap_bio(gfp_t gfp_flags, pgoff_t index,
@@ -102,6 +103,18 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, st
 		unlock_page(page);
 		goto out;
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	{
+		struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
+		if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
+			ret = sis->swap_file->f_mapping->
+				a_ops->swap_out(sis->swap_file, page, wbc);
+			if (!ret)
+				count_vm_event(PSWPOUT);
+			return ret;
+		}
+	}
+#endif
 	bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page_private(page), page,
 				end_swap_bio_write);
 	if (bio == NULL) {
@@ -120,6 +133,39 @@ out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+void swap_sync_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
+
+	if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
+		const struct address_space_operations * a_ops =
+			sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops;
+		if (a_ops->sync_page)
+			a_ops->sync_page(page);
+	} else
+		block_sync_page(page);
+}
+
+int swap_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
+
+	if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
+		const struct address_space_operations * a_ops =
+			sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops;
+		int (*spd)(struct page *) = a_ops->set_page_dirty;
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+		if (!spd)
+			spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers;
+#endif
+		return (*spd)(page);
+	}
+
+	return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page);
+}
+#endif
+
 int swap_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
 {
 	struct bio *bio;
@@ -127,6 +173,18 @@ int swap_readpage(struct file *file, str
 
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 	ClearPageUptodate(page);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	{
+		struct swap_info_struct *sis = page_swap_info(page);
+		if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
+			ret = sis->swap_file->f_mapping->
+				a_ops->swap_in(sis->swap_file, page);
+			if (!ret)
+				count_vm_event(PSWPIN);
+			return ret;
+		}
+	}
+#endif
 	bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page_private(page), page,
 				end_swap_bio_read);
 	if (bio == NULL) {
Index: linux-2.6/mm/swap_state.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/swap_state.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -27,8 +27,13 @@
  */
 static const struct address_space_operations swap_aops = {
 	.writepage	= swap_writepage,
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	.sync_page	= swap_sync_page,
+	.set_page_dirty	= swap_set_page_dirty,
+#else
 	.sync_page	= block_sync_page,
 	.set_page_dirty	= __set_page_dirty_nobuffers,
+#endif
 	.migratepage	= migrate_page,
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/swapfile.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,13 @@ static void destroy_swap_extents(struct 
 		list_del(&se->list);
 		kfree(se);
 	}
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	if (sis->flags & SWP_FILE) {
+		sis->flags &= ~SWP_FILE;
+		sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops->
+			swapfile(sis->swap_file->f_mapping, 0);
+	}
+#endif
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1107,6 +1114,19 @@ static int setup_swap_extents(struct swa
 		goto done;
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	if (sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops->swapfile) {
+		ret = sis->swap_file->f_mapping->a_ops->
+			swapfile(sis->swap_file->f_mapping, 1);
+		if (!ret) {
+			sis->flags |= SWP_FILE;
+			ret = add_swap_extent(sis, 0, sis->max, 0);
+			*span = sis->pages;
+		}
+		goto done;
+	}
+#endif
+
 	blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
 	blocks_per_page = PAGE_SIZE >> blkbits;
 
@@ -1671,7 +1691,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __
 
 	mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
-	p->flags = SWP_ACTIVE;
+	p->flags |= SWP_WRITEOK;
 	nr_swap_pages += nr_good_pages;
 	total_swap_pages += nr_good_pages;
 
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -479,6 +479,14 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 	int (*migratepage) (struct address_space *,
 			struct page *, struct page *);
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+
+	/*
+	 * swapfile support
+	 */
+	int (*swapfile)(struct address_space *, int);
+	int (*swap_out)(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+			struct writeback_control *wbc);
+	int (*swap_in)(struct file *file, struct page *page);
 };
 
 /*
Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ prototypes:
 	int (*direct_IO)(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
 			loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+	int (*swapfile) (struct address_space *, int);
+	int (*swap_out) (struct file *, struct page *, struct writeback_control *);
+	int (*swap_in)  (struct file *, struct page *);
 
 locking rules:
 	All except set_page_dirty may block
@@ -192,6 +195,9 @@ invalidatepage:		no	yes
 releasepage:		no	yes
 direct_IO:		no
 launder_page:		no	yes
+swapfile		no
+swap_out		no	yes, unlocks
+swap_in			no	yes, unlocks
 
 	->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage()
 may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop).
@@ -291,6 +297,19 @@ cleaned, or an error value if not. Note 
 getting mapped back in and redirtied, it needs to be kept locked
 across the entire operation.
 
+	->swapfile() will be called with a non zero argument on address spaces
+backing non block device backed swapfiles. A return value of zero indicates
+success. In which case this address space can be used for backing swapspace.
+The swapspace operations will be proxied to the address space operations.
+Swapoff will call this method with a zero argument to release the address
+space.
+
+	->swap_out() when swapfile() returned success, this method is used to
+write the swap page.
+
+	->swap_in() when swapfile() returned success, this method is used to
+read the swap page.
+
 	Note: currently almost all instances of address_space methods are
 using BKL for internal serialization and that's one of the worst sources
 of contention. Normally they are calling library functions (in fs/buffer.c)
Index: linux-2.6/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/mm/Kconfig
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ config BOUNCE
 	def_bool y
 	depends on BLOCK && MMU && (ZONE_DMA || HIGHMEM)
 
+config SWAP_FILE
+	def_bool n
+
 config NR_QUICK
 	int
 	depends on QUICKLIST
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/buffer_head.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static inline void invalidate_inode_buff
 static inline int remove_inode_buffers(struct inode *inode) { return 1; }
 static inline int sync_mapping_buffers(struct address_space *mapping) { return 0; }
 static inline void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev) {}
-
+static inline void block_sync_page(struct page *) { }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */
 #endif /* _LINUX_BUFFER_HEAD_H */
Index: linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -542,6 +542,10 @@ struct address_space_operations {
 	/* migrate the contents of a page to the specified target */
 	int (*migratepage) (struct page *, struct page *);
 	int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
+	int (*swapfile)(struct address_space *, int);
+	int (*swap_out)(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+			struct writeback_control *wbc);
+	int (*swap_in)(struct file *file, struct page *page);
 };
 
   writepage: called by the VM to write a dirty page to backing store.
@@ -727,6 +731,19 @@ struct address_space_operations {
   	prevent redirtying the page, it is kept locked during the whole
 	operation.
 
+  swapfile: Called with a non-zero argument when swapon is used on a file. A
+	return value of zero indicates success. In which case this
+	address_space can be used to back swapspace. The swapspace operations
+	will be proxied to this address space's ->swap_{out,in} methods.
+	Swapoff will call this method with a zero argument to release the
+	address space.
+
+  swap_out: Called to write a swapcache page to a backing store, similar to
+	writepage.
+
+  swap_in: Called to read a swapcache page from a backing store, similar to
+	readpage.
+
 The File Object
 ===============
 

--

[PATCH 24/29] mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: mm-page_file_methods.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 2789 bytes --]

In order to teach filesystems to handle swap cache pages, two new page
functions are introduced:

  pgoff_t page_file_index(struct page *);
  struct address_space *page_file_mapping(struct page *);

page_file_index - gives the offset of this page in the file in PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
blocks. Like page->index is for mapped pages, this function also gives the
correct index for PG_swapcache pages.

page_file_mapping - gives the mapping backing the actual page; that is for
swap cache pages it will give swap_file->f_mapping.

page_offset() is modified to use page_file_index(), so that it will give the
expected result, even for PG_swapcache pages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 include/linux/mm.h      |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/pagemap.h |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
 
 struct mempolicy;
 struct anon_vma;
@@ -608,6 +609,16 @@ static inline struct swap_info_struct *p
 	return get_swap_info_struct(swp_type(swap));
 }
 
+static inline
+struct address_space *page_file_mapping(struct page *page)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page)))
+		return page_swap_info(page)->swap_file->f_mapping;
+#endif
+	return page->mapping;
+}
+
 static inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
 {
 	return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
@@ -625,6 +636,21 @@ static inline pgoff_t page_index(struct 
 }
 
 /*
+ * Return the file index of the page. Regular pagecache pages use ->index
+ * whereas swapcache pages use swp_offset(->private)
+ */
+static inline pgoff_t page_file_index(struct page *page)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SWAP_FILE
+	if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page))) {
+		swp_entry_t swap = { .val = page_private(page) };
+		return swp_offset(swap);
+	}
+#endif
+	return page->index;
+}
+
+/*
  * The atomic page->_mapcount, like _count, starts from -1:
  * so that transitions both from it and to it can be tracked,
  * using atomic_inc_and_test and atomic_add_negative(-1).
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/pagemap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ extern void __remove_from_page_cache(str
  */
 static inline loff_t page_offset(struct page *page)
 {
-	return ((loff_t)page->index) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+	return ((loff_t)page_file_index(page)) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 }
 
 static inline pgoff_t linear_page_index(struct vm_area_struct *vma,

--

[PATCH 25/29] nfs: remove mempools

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: nfs-no-mempool.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 4919 bytes --]

With the introduction of the shared dirty page accounting in .19, NFS should
not be able to surpise the VM with all dirty pages. Thus it should always be
able to free some memory. Hence no more need for mempools.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 fs/nfs/read.c  |   15 +++------------
 fs/nfs/write.c |   27 +++++----------------------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/read.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -33,13 +33,10 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_rea
 static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_read_full_ops;
 
 static struct kmem_cache *nfs_rdata_cachep;
-static mempool_t *nfs_rdata_mempool;
-
-#define MIN_POOL_READ	(32)
 
 struct nfs_read_data *nfs_readdata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
 {
-	struct nfs_read_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_rdata_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+	struct nfs_read_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_rdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -50,7 +47,7 @@ struct nfs_read_data *nfs_readdata_alloc
 		else {
 			p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
 			if (!p->pagevec) {
-				mempool_free(p, nfs_rdata_mempool);
+				kmem_cache_free(nfs_rdata_cachep, p);
 				p = NULL;
 			}
 		}
@@ -63,7 +60,7 @@ static void nfs_readdata_rcu_free(struct
 	struct nfs_read_data *p = container_of(head, struct nfs_read_data, task.u.tk_rcu);
 	if (p && (p->pagevec != &p->page_array[0]))
 		kfree(p->pagevec);
-	mempool_free(p, nfs_rdata_mempool);
+	kmem_cache_free(nfs_rdata_cachep, p);
 }
 
 static void nfs_readdata_free(struct nfs_read_data *rdata)
@@ -597,16 +594,10 @@ int __init nfs_init_readpagecache(void)
 	if (nfs_rdata_cachep == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	nfs_rdata_mempool = mempool_create_slab_pool(MIN_POOL_READ,
-						     nfs_rdata_cachep);
-	if (nfs_rdata_mempool == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
 void nfs_destroy_readpagecache(void)
 {
-	mempool_destroy(nfs_rdata_mempool);
 	kmem_cache_destroy(nfs_rdata_cachep);
 }
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@
 
 #define NFSDBG_FACILITY		NFSDBG_PAGECACHE
 
-#define MIN_POOL_WRITE		(32)
-#define MIN_POOL_COMMIT		(4)
-
 /*
  * Local function declarations
  */
@@ -44,12 +41,10 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_wri
 static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_commit_ops;
 
 static struct kmem_cache *nfs_wdata_cachep;
-static mempool_t *nfs_wdata_mempool;
-static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool;
 
 struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commit_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ static void nfs_commit_rcu_free(struct r
 	struct nfs_write_data *p = container_of(head, struct nfs_write_data, task.u.tk_rcu);
 	if (p && (p->pagevec != &p->page_array[0]))
 		kfree(p->pagevec);
-	mempool_free(p, nfs_commit_mempool);
+	kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p);
 }
 
 void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_data *wdata)
@@ -73,7 +68,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da
 
 struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
 {
-	struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -84,7 +79,7 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_all
 		else {
 			p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
 			if (!p->pagevec) {
-				mempool_free(p, nfs_wdata_mempool);
+				kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p);
 				p = NULL;
 			}
 		}
@@ -97,7 +92,7 @@ static void nfs_writedata_rcu_free(struc
 	struct nfs_write_data *p = container_of(head, struct nfs_write_data, task.u.tk_rcu);
 	if (p && (p->pagevec != &p->page_array[0]))
 		kfree(p->pagevec);
-	mempool_free(p, nfs_wdata_mempool);
+	kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p);
 }
 
 static void nfs_writedata_free(struct nfs_write_data *wdata)
@@ -1474,16 +1469,6 @@ int __init nfs_init_writepagecache(void)
 	if (nfs_wdata_cachep == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	nfs_wdata_mempool = mempool_create_slab_pool(MIN_POOL_WRITE,
-						     nfs_wdata_cachep);
-	if (nfs_wdata_mempool == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	nfs_commit_mempool = mempool_create_slab_pool(MIN_POOL_COMMIT,
-						      nfs_wdata_cachep);
-	if (nfs_commit_mempool == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	/*
 	 * NFS congestion size, scale with available memory.
 	 *
@@ -1509,8 +1494,6 @@ int __init nfs_init_writepagecache(void)
 
 void nfs_destroy_writepagecache(void)
 {
-	mempool_destroy(nfs_commit_mempool);
-	mempool_destroy(nfs_wdata_mempool);
 	kmem_cache_destroy(nfs_wdata_cachep);
 }
 

--

[PATCH 26/29] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: nfs-swapcache.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 12547 bytes --]

Replace all relevant occurences of page->index and page->mapping in the NFS
client with the new page_file_index() and page_file_mapping() functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 fs/nfs/file.c     |    8 ++++----
 fs/nfs/internal.h |    7 ++++---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c |    6 +++---
 fs/nfs/read.c     |    6 +++---
 fs/nfs/write.c    |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ static void nfs_invalidate_page(struct p
 	if (offset != 0)
 		return;
 	/* Cancel any unstarted writes on this page */
-	nfs_wb_page_cancel(page->mapping->host, page);
+	nfs_wb_page_cancel(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page);
 }
 
 static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp)
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static int nfs_release_page(struct page 
 
 static int nfs_launder_page(struct page *page)
 {
-	return nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+	return nfs_wb_page(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page);
 }
 
 const struct address_space_operations nfs_file_aops = {
@@ -397,13 +397,13 @@ static int nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm
 	loff_t offset;
 
 	lock_page(page);
-	mapping = page->mapping;
+	mapping = page_file_mapping(page);
 	if (mapping != vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mapping) {
 		unlock_page(page);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	pagelen = nfs_page_length(page);
-	offset = (loff_t)page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+	offset = (loff_t)page_file_index(page) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	unlock_page(page);
 
 	/*
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ nfs_create_request(struct nfs_open_conte
 	 * update_nfs_request below if the region is not locked. */
 	req->wb_page    = page;
 	atomic_set(&req->wb_complete, 0);
-	req->wb_index	= page->index;
+	req->wb_index	= page_file_index(page);
 	page_cache_get(page);
 	BUG_ON(PagePrivate(page));
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
-	BUG_ON(page->mapping->host != inode);
+	BUG_ON(page_file_mapping(page)->host != inode);
 	req->wb_offset  = offset;
 	req->wb_pgbase	= offset;
 	req->wb_bytes   = count;
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ void nfs_pageio_cond_complete(struct nfs
  * nfs_scan_list - Scan a list for matching requests
  * @nfsi: NFS inode
  * @dst: Destination list
- * @idx_start: lower bound of page->index to scan
+ * @idx_start: lower bound of page_file_index(page) to scan
  * @npages: idx_start + npages sets the upper bound to scan.
  * @tag: tag to scan for
  *
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/read.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/read.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/read.c
@@ -460,11 +460,11 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_rea
 int nfs_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
 {
 	struct nfs_open_context *ctx;
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	int		error;
 
 	dprintk("NFS: nfs_readpage (%p %ld@%lu)\n",
-		page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, page->index);
+		page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, page_file_index(page));
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSREADPAGE);
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_READPAGES, 1);
 
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static int
 readpage_async_filler(void *data, struct page *page)
 {
 	struct nfs_readdesc *desc = (struct nfs_readdesc *)data;
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	struct nfs_page *new;
 	unsigned int len;
 	int error;
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_re
 
 static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_request(struct page *page)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	struct nfs_page *req = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -138,13 +138,13 @@ static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_re
 /* Adjust the file length if we're writing beyond the end */
 static void nfs_grow_file(struct page *page, unsigned int offset, unsigned int count)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	loff_t end, i_size = i_size_read(inode);
 	pgoff_t end_index = (i_size - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 
-	if (i_size > 0 && page->index < end_index)
+	if (i_size > 0 && page_file_index(page) < end_index)
 		return;
-	end = ((loff_t)page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) + ((loff_t)offset+count);
+	end = page_offset(page) + ((loff_t)offset+count);
 	if (i_size >= end)
 		return;
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_EXTENDWRITE);
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static void nfs_grow_file(struct page *p
 static void nfs_set_pageerror(struct page *page)
 {
 	SetPageError(page);
-	nfs_zap_mapping(page->mapping->host, page->mapping);
+	nfs_zap_mapping(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page_file_mapping(page));
 }
 
 /* We can set the PG_uptodate flag if we see that a write request
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static int nfs_writepage_setup(struct nf
 		ret = PTR_ERR(req);
 		if (ret != -EBUSY)
 			return ret;
-		ret = nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+		ret = nfs_wb_page(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page);
 		if (ret != 0)
 			return ret;
 	}
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ static int nfs_set_page_writeback(struct
 	int ret = test_set_page_writeback(page);
 
 	if (!ret) {
-		struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+		struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 		struct nfs_server *nfss = NFS_SERVER(inode);
 
 		if (atomic_long_inc_return(&nfss->writeback) >
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ static int nfs_set_page_writeback(struct
 
 static void nfs_end_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	struct nfs_server *nfss = NFS_SERVER(inode);
 
 	end_page_writeback(page);
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static void nfs_end_page_writeback(struc
 static int nfs_page_async_flush(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *pgio,
 				struct page *page)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
 	struct nfs_page *req;
 	int ret;
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static int nfs_page_async_flush(struct n
 
 static int nfs_do_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *pgio)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSWRITEPAGE);
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_WRITEPAGES, 1);
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static int nfs_writepage_locked(struct p
 	struct nfs_pageio_descriptor pgio;
 	int err;
 
-	nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, page->mapping->host, wb_priority(wbc));
+	nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, page_file_mapping(page)->host, wb_priority(wbc));
 	err = nfs_do_writepage(page, wbc, &pgio);
 	nfs_pageio_complete(&pgio);
 	if (err < 0)
@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ nfs_mark_request_commit(struct nfs_page 
 			NFS_PAGE_TAG_COMMIT);
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	inc_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-	inc_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
+	inc_bdi_stat(page_file_mapping(req->wb_page)->backing_dev_info,
+			BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
 	__mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC);
 }
 
@@ -529,7 +530,7 @@ static void nfs_cancel_commit_list(struc
 	while(!list_empty(head)) {
 		req = nfs_list_entry(head->next);
 		dec_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-		dec_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info,
+		dec_bdi_stat(page_file_mapping(req->wb_page)->backing_dev_info,
 				BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
 		nfs_list_remove_request(req);
 		clear_bit(PG_NEED_COMMIT, &(req)->wb_flags);
@@ -543,7 +544,7 @@ static void nfs_cancel_commit_list(struc
  * nfs_scan_commit - Scan an inode for commit requests
  * @inode: NFS inode to scan
  * @dst: destination list
- * @idx_start: lower bound of page->index to scan.
+ * @idx_start: lower bound of page_file_index(page) to scan.
  * @npages: idx_start + npages sets the upper bound to scan.
  *
  * Moves requests from the inode's 'commit' request list.
@@ -579,7 +580,7 @@ static inline int nfs_scan_commit(struct
 static struct nfs_page * nfs_update_request(struct nfs_open_context* ctx,
 		struct page *page, unsigned int offset, unsigned int bytes)
 {
-	struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
+	struct address_space *mapping = page_file_mapping(page);
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct nfs_page		*req, *new = NULL;
 	pgoff_t		rqend, end;
@@ -681,7 +682,7 @@ int nfs_flush_incompatible(struct file *
 		nfs_release_request(req);
 		if (!do_flush)
 			return 0;
-		status = nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+		status = nfs_wb_page(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page);
 	} while (status == 0);
 	return status;
 }
@@ -696,7 +697,7 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
 		unsigned int offset, unsigned int count)
 {
 	struct nfs_open_context *ctx = nfs_file_open_context(file);
-	struct inode	*inode = page->mapping->host;
+	struct inode	*inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	int		status = 0;
 
 	nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSUPDATEPAGE);
@@ -952,7 +953,7 @@ static void nfs_writeback_done_partial(s
 	}
 
 	if (nfs_write_need_commit(data)) {
-		struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+		struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		if (test_bit(PG_NEED_RESCHED, &req->wb_flags)) {
@@ -1191,7 +1192,7 @@ nfs_commit_list(struct inode *inode, str
 		nfs_list_remove_request(req);
 		nfs_mark_request_commit(req);
 		dec_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-		dec_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info,
+		dec_bdi_stat(page_file_mapping(req->wb_page)->backing_dev_info,
 				BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
 		nfs_clear_page_tag_locked(req);
 	}
@@ -1218,7 +1219,7 @@ static void nfs_commit_done(struct rpc_t
 		nfs_list_remove_request(req);
 		clear_bit(PG_NEED_COMMIT, &(req)->wb_flags);
 		dec_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-		dec_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info,
+		dec_bdi_stat(page_file_mapping(req->wb_page)->backing_dev_info,
 				BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
 
 		dprintk("NFS: commit (%s/%Ld %d@%Ld)",
@@ -1384,7 +1385,7 @@ int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *ino
 	loff_t range_start = page_offset(page);
 	loff_t range_end = range_start + (loff_t)(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	struct writeback_control wbc = {
-		.bdi = page->mapping->backing_dev_info,
+		.bdi = page_file_mapping(page)->backing_dev_info,
 		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
 		.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
 		.range_start = range_start,
@@ -1417,7 +1418,7 @@ int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *ino
 	}
 	if (!PagePrivate(page))
 		return 0;
-	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page->mapping, &wbc, FLUSH_INVALIDATE);
+	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page_file_mapping(page), &wbc, FLUSH_INVALIDATE);
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -1428,7 +1429,7 @@ static int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct i
 	loff_t range_start = page_offset(page);
 	loff_t range_end = range_start + (loff_t)(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	struct writeback_control wbc = {
-		.bdi = page->mapping->backing_dev_info,
+		.bdi = page_file_mapping(page)->backing_dev_info,
 		.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
 		.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
 		.range_start = range_start,
@@ -1444,7 +1445,7 @@ static int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct i
 	}
 	if (!PagePrivate(page))
 		return 0;
-	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page->mapping, &wbc, how);
+	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page_file_mapping(page), &wbc, how);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		return 0;
 out:
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/internal.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -248,13 +248,14 @@ void nfs_super_set_maxbytes(struct super
 static inline
 unsigned int nfs_page_length(struct page *page)
 {
-	loff_t i_size = i_size_read(page->mapping->host);
+	loff_t i_size = i_size_read(page_file_mapping(page)->host);
 
 	if (i_size > 0) {
+		pgoff_t page_index = page_file_index(page);
 		pgoff_t end_index = (i_size - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
-		if (page->index < end_index)
+		if (page_index < end_index)
 			return PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-		if (page->index == end_index)
+		if (page_index == end_index)
 			return ((i_size - 1) & ~PAGE_CACHE_MASK) + 1;
 	}
 	return 0;

--

[PATCH 27/29] nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: nfs-swapper.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 5230 bytes --]

Do as Trond suggested:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/348

Disable NFS data cache revalidation on swap files since it doesn't really 
make sense to have other clients change the file while you are using it.

Thereby we can stop setting PG_private on swap pages, since there ought to
be no further races with invalidate_inode_pages2() to deal with.

And since we cannot set PG_private we cannot use page->private (which is
already used by PG_swapcache pages anyway) to store the nfs_page. Thus
augment the new nfs_page_find_request logic.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 fs/nfs/inode.c |    6 ++++
 fs/nfs/write.c |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -758,6 +758,12 @@ int nfs_revalidate_mapping_nolock(struct
 	struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode);
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * swapfiles are not supposed to be shared.
+	 */
+	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
+		goto out;
+
 	if ((nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE)
 			|| nfs_attribute_timeout(inode) || NFS_STALE(inode)) {
 		ret = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -112,25 +112,62 @@ static void nfs_context_set_write_error(
 	set_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_ERROR_WRITE, &ctx->flags);
 }
 
-static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_request_locked(struct page *page)
+static struct nfs_page *
+__nfs_page_find_request_locked(struct nfs_inode *nfsi, struct page *page, int get)
 {
 	struct nfs_page *req = NULL;
 
-	if (PagePrivate(page)) {
+	if (PagePrivate(page))
 		req = (struct nfs_page *)page_private(page);
-		if (req != NULL)
-			kref_get(&req->wb_kref);
-	}
+	else if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page)))
+		req = radix_tree_lookup(&nfsi->nfs_page_tree, page_file_index(page));
+
+	if (get && req)
+		kref_get(&req->wb_kref);
+
 	return req;
 }
 
+static inline struct nfs_page *
+nfs_page_find_request_locked(struct nfs_inode *nfsi, struct page *page)
+{
+	return __nfs_page_find_request_locked(nfsi, page, 1);
+}
+
+static int __nfs_page_has_request(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
+	struct nfs_page *req = NULL;
+
+	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+	req = __nfs_page_find_request_locked(NFS_I(inode), page, 0);
+	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * hole here plugged by the caller holding onto PG_locked
+	 */
+
+	return req != NULL;
+}
+
+static inline int nfs_page_has_request(struct page *page)
+{
+	if (PagePrivate(page))
+		return 1;
+
+	if (unlikely(PageSwapCache(page)))
+		return __nfs_page_has_request(page);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_request(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = page_file_mapping(page)->host;
 	struct nfs_page *req = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(page);
+	req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(NFS_I(inode), page);
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 	return req;
 }
@@ -253,7 +290,7 @@ static int nfs_page_async_flush(struct n
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 	for(;;) {
-		req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(page);
+		req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(nfsi, page);
 		if (req == NULL) {
 			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 			return 0;
@@ -370,8 +407,14 @@ static void nfs_inode_add_request(struct
 		if (nfs_have_delegation(inode, FMODE_WRITE))
 			nfsi->change_attr++;
 	}
-	SetPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
-	set_page_private(req->wb_page, (unsigned long)req);
+	/*
+	 * Swap-space should not get truncated. Hence no need to plug the race
+	 * with invalidate/truncate.
+	 */
+	if (likely(!PageSwapCache(req->wb_page))) {
+		SetPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
+		set_page_private(req->wb_page, (unsigned long)req);
+	}
 	nfsi->npages++;
 	kref_get(&req->wb_kref);
 }
@@ -387,8 +430,10 @@ static void nfs_inode_remove_request(str
 	BUG_ON (!NFS_WBACK_BUSY(req));
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	set_page_private(req->wb_page, 0);
-	ClearPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
+	if (likely(!PageSwapCache(req->wb_page))) {
+		set_page_private(req->wb_page, 0);
+		ClearPagePrivate(req->wb_page);
+	}
 	radix_tree_delete(&nfsi->nfs_page_tree, req->wb_index);
 	nfsi->npages--;
 	if (!nfsi->npages) {
@@ -594,7 +639,7 @@ static struct nfs_page * nfs_update_requ
 		}
 
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-		req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(page);
+		req = nfs_page_find_request_locked(NFS_I(inode), page);
 		if (req) {
 			if (!nfs_lock_request_dontget(req)) {
 				int error;
@@ -1426,7 +1471,7 @@ int nfs_wb_page_cancel(struct inode *ino
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto out;
 	}
-	if (!PagePrivate(page))
+	if (!nfs_page_has_request(page))
 		return 0;
 	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page_file_mapping(page), &wbc, FLUSH_INVALIDATE);
 out:
@@ -1453,7 +1498,7 @@ static int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct i
 		if (ret < 0)
 			goto out;
 	}
-	if (!PagePrivate(page))
+	if (!nfs_page_has_request(page))
 		return 0;
 	ret = nfs_sync_mapping_wait(page_file_mapping(page), &wbc, how);
 	if (ret >= 0)

--

[PATCH 28/29] nfs: enable swap on NFS

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: nfs-swap_ops.patch --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 10831 bytes --]

Implement all the new swapfile a_ops for NFS. This will set the NFS socket to
SOCK_MEMALLOC and run socket reconnect under PF_MEMALLOC as well as reset
SOCK_MEMALLOC before engaging the protocol ->connect() method.

PF_MEMALLOC should allow the allocation of struct socket and related objects
and the early (re)setting of SOCK_MEMALLOC should allow us to receive the
packets required for the TCP connection buildup.

(swapping continues over a server reset during heavy network traffic)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 fs/Kconfig                  |   18 ++++++++++++
 fs/nfs/file.c               |   12 ++++++++
 fs/nfs/write.c              |   19 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h      |    2 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h |    5 ++-
 net/sunrpc/sched.c          |    9 ++++--
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c       |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -371,6 +371,13 @@ static int nfs_launder_page(struct page 
 	return nfs_wb_page(page_file_mapping(page)->host, page);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFS_SWAP
+static int nfs_swapfile(struct address_space *mapping, int enable)
+{
+	return xs_swapper(NFS_CLIENT(mapping->host)->cl_xprt, enable);
+}
+#endif
+
 const struct address_space_operations nfs_file_aops = {
 	.readpage = nfs_readpage,
 	.readpages = nfs_readpages,
@@ -385,6 +392,11 @@ const struct address_space_operations nf
 	.direct_IO = nfs_direct_IO,
 #endif
 	.launder_page = nfs_launder_page,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFS_SWAP
+	.swapfile = nfs_swapfile,
+	.swap_out = nfs_swap_out,
+	.swap_in = nfs_readpage,
+#endif
 };
 
 static int nfs_vm_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -365,6 +365,25 @@ int nfs_writepage(struct page *page, str
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int nfs_swap_out(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+		 struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+	struct nfs_open_context *ctx = nfs_file_open_context(file);
+	int status;
+
+	status = nfs_writepage_setup(ctx, page, 0, nfs_page_length(page));
+	if (status < 0) {
+		nfs_set_pageerror(page);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	status = nfs_writepage_locked(page, wbc);
+
+out:
+	unlock_page(page);
+	return status;
+}
+
 static int nfs_writepages_callback(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc, void *data)
 {
 	int ret;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -413,6 +413,8 @@ extern int  nfs_flush_incompatible(struc
 extern int  nfs_updatepage(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned int, unsigned int);
 extern int nfs_writeback_done(struct rpc_task *, struct nfs_write_data *);
 extern void nfs_writedata_release(void *);
+extern int  nfs_swap_out(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+			 struct writeback_control *wbc);
 
 /*
  * Try to write back everything synchronously (but check the
Index: linux-2.6/fs/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/Kconfig
+++ linux-2.6/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1692,6 +1692,18 @@ config NFS_DIRECTIO
 	  causes open() to return EINVAL if a file residing in NFS is
 	  opened with the O_DIRECT flag.
 
+config NFS_SWAP
+	bool "Provide swap over NFS support"
+	default n
+	depends on NFS_FS
+	select SUNRPC_SWAP
+	help
+	  This option enables swapon to work on files located on NFS mounts.
+
+	  For more details, see Documentation/vm_deadlock.txt
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config NFSD
 	tristate "NFS server support"
 	depends on INET
@@ -1835,6 +1847,12 @@ config SUNRPC_BIND34
 	  If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (version 2 rpcbind
 	  requests only).
 
+config SUNRPC_SWAP
+	def_bool n
+	depends on SUNRPC
+	select NETVM
+	select SWAP_FILE
+
 config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
 	tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ struct rpc_xprt {
 	unsigned int		max_reqs;	/* total slots */
 	unsigned long		state;		/* transport state */
 	unsigned char		shutdown   : 1,	/* being shut down */
-				resvport   : 1; /* use a reserved port */
+				resvport   : 1, /* use a reserved port */
+				swapper    : 1; /* we're swapping over this
+						   transport */
 	unsigned int		bind_index;	/* bind function index */
 
 	/*
@@ -246,6 +248,7 @@ struct rpc_rqst *	xprt_lookup_rqst(struc
 void			xprt_complete_rqst(struct rpc_task *task, int copied);
 void			xprt_release_rqst_cong(struct rpc_task *task);
 void			xprt_disconnect(struct rpc_xprt *xprt);
+int			xs_swapper(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int enable);
 
 /*
  * Reserved bit positions in xprt->state
Index: linux-2.6/net/sunrpc/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -761,7 +761,10 @@ struct rpc_buffer {
 void *rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task, size_t size)
 {
 	struct rpc_buffer *buf;
-	gfp_t gfp = RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_NOWAIT;
+	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOWAIT;
+
+	if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
+		gfp |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
 
 	size += sizeof(struct rpc_buffer);
 	if (size <= RPC_BUFFER_MAXSIZE)
@@ -816,6 +819,8 @@ void rpc_init_task(struct rpc_task *task
 	atomic_set(&task->tk_count, 1);
 	task->tk_client = clnt;
 	task->tk_flags  = flags;
+	if (clnt->cl_xprt->swapper)
+		task->tk_flags |= RPC_TASK_SWAPPER;
 	task->tk_ops = tk_ops;
 	if (tk_ops->rpc_call_prepare != NULL)
 		task->tk_action = rpc_prepare_task;
@@ -852,7 +857,7 @@ void rpc_init_task(struct rpc_task *task
 static struct rpc_task *
 rpc_alloc_task(void)
 {
-	return (struct rpc_task *)mempool_alloc(rpc_task_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+	return (struct rpc_task *)mempool_alloc(rpc_task_mempool, GFP_NOIO);
 }
 
 static void rpc_free_task(struct rcu_head *rcu)
Index: linux-2.6/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ linux-2.6/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -1397,6 +1397,9 @@ static void xs_udp_finish_connecting(str
 		transport->sock = sock;
 		transport->inet = sk;
 
+		if (xprt->swapper)
+			sk_set_memalloc(sk);
+
 		write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
 	}
 	xs_udp_do_set_buffer_size(xprt);
@@ -1414,11 +1417,15 @@ static void xs_udp_connect_worker4(struc
 		container_of(work, struct sock_xprt, connect_worker.work);
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = &transport->xprt;
 	struct socket *sock = transport->sock;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
 	int err, status = -EIO;
 
 	if (xprt->shutdown || !xprt_bound(xprt))
 		goto out;
 
+	if (xprt->swapper)
+		current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+
 	/* Start by resetting any existing state */
 	xs_close(xprt);
 
@@ -1441,6 +1448,7 @@ static void xs_udp_connect_worker4(struc
 out:
 	xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
 	xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1455,11 +1463,15 @@ static void xs_udp_connect_worker6(struc
 		container_of(work, struct sock_xprt, connect_worker.work);
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = &transport->xprt;
 	struct socket *sock = transport->sock;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
 	int err, status = -EIO;
 
 	if (xprt->shutdown || !xprt_bound(xprt))
 		goto out;
 
+	if (xprt->swapper)
+		current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+
 	/* Start by resetting any existing state */
 	xs_close(xprt);
 
@@ -1482,6 +1494,7 @@ static void xs_udp_connect_worker6(struc
 out:
 	xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
 	xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1541,6 +1554,9 @@ static int xs_tcp_finish_connecting(stru
 		write_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
 	}
 
+	if (xprt->swapper)
+		sk_set_memalloc(transport->inet);
+
 	/* Tell the socket layer to start connecting... */
 	xprt->stat.connect_count++;
 	xprt->stat.connect_start = jiffies;
@@ -1559,11 +1575,15 @@ static void xs_tcp_connect_worker4(struc
 		container_of(work, struct sock_xprt, connect_worker.work);
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = &transport->xprt;
 	struct socket *sock = transport->sock;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
 	int err, status = -EIO;
 
 	if (xprt->shutdown || !xprt_bound(xprt))
 		goto out;
 
+	if (xprt->swapper)
+		current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+
 	if (!sock) {
 		/* start from scratch */
 		if ((err = sock_create_kern(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, &sock)) < 0) {
@@ -1606,6 +1626,7 @@ out:
 	xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
 out_clear:
 	xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1620,11 +1641,15 @@ static void xs_tcp_connect_worker6(struc
 		container_of(work, struct sock_xprt, connect_worker.work);
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = &transport->xprt;
 	struct socket *sock = transport->sock;
+	unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
 	int err, status = -EIO;
 
 	if (xprt->shutdown || !xprt_bound(xprt))
 		goto out;
 
+	if (xprt->swapper)
+		current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
+
 	if (!sock) {
 		/* start from scratch */
 		if ((err = sock_create_kern(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, &sock)) < 0) {
@@ -1666,6 +1691,7 @@ out:
 	xprt_wake_pending_tasks(xprt, status);
 out_clear:
 	xprt_clear_connecting(xprt);
+	tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1985,6 +2011,43 @@ int init_socket_xprt(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SUNRPC_SWAP
+#define RPC_BUF_RESERVE_PAGES \
+	kestimate_single(sizeof(struct rpc_rqst), GFP_KERNEL, RPC_MAX_SLOT_TABLE)
+#define RPC_RESERVE_PAGES	(RPC_BUF_RESERVE_PAGES + TX_RESERVE_PAGES)
+
+/**
+ * xs_swapper - Tag this transport as being used for swap.
+ * @xprt: transport to tag
+ * @enable: enable/disable
+ *
+ */
+int xs_swapper(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int enable)
+{
+	struct sock_xprt *transport = container_of(xprt, struct sock_xprt, xprt);
+	int err = 0;
+
+	if (enable) {
+		/*
+		 * keep one extra sock reference so the reserve won't dip
+		 * when the socket gets reconnected.
+		 */
+		err = sk_adjust_memalloc(1, RPC_RESERVE_PAGES);
+		if (!err) {
+			sk_set_memalloc(transport->inet);
+			xprt->swapper = 1;
+		}
+	} else if (xprt->swapper) {
+		xprt->swapper = 0;
+		sk_clear_memalloc(transport->inet);
+		sk_adjust_memalloc(-1, -RPC_RESERVE_PAGES);
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xs_swapper);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * cleanup_socket_xprt - remove xprtsock's sysctls, unregister
  *

--

[PATCH 29/29] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS.

[Peter Zijlstra]

[-- Attachment #1: nfs-alloc-recursions.patch --]
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GFP_NOFS is not enough, since swap traffic is IO, hence fall back to GFP_NOIO.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c |    2 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c    |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_wdata_cach
 
 struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commit_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO);
 
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da
 
 struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
 {
-	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO);
 
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_all
 		if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array))
 			p->pagevec = p->page_array;
 		else {
-			p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
+			p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOIO);
 			if (!p->pagevec) {
 				kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p);
 				p = NULL;
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static inline struct nfs_page *
 nfs_page_alloc(void)
 {
 	struct nfs_page	*p;
-	p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (p) {
 		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list);

--

Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

[Daniel Phillips]

Hi Peter,

A major feature of this patch set is the network receive deadlock 
avoidance, but there is quite a bit of stuff bundled with it, the NFS 
user accounting for a big part of the patch by itself.

Is it possible to provide a before and after demonstration case for just 
the network receive deadlock part, given a subset of the patch set and 
a user space recipe that anybody can try?

Regards,

Daniel

Re: [PATCH 16/29] netvm: INET reserves.

[Daniel Phillips]

Hi Peter,

sysctl_intvec_fragment, proc_dointvec_fragment, sysctl_intvec_fragment 
seem to suffer from cut-n-pastitis.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: [PATCH 04/29] mm: kmem_estimate_pages()

[Daniel Phillips]

On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Provide a method to get the upper bound on the pages needed to
> allocate a given number of objects from a given kmem_cache.
>
> This lays the foundation for a generic reserve framework as presented
> in a later patch in this series. This framework needs to convert
> object demand (kmalloc() bytes, kmem_cache_alloc() objects) to pages.

And hence the big idea that all reserve accounting can be done in units
of pages, allowing the use of a single global reserve that already 
exists.

The other big idea here is that reserve accounting can be independent of 
the actual resource allocations.  This is a powerful idea which we may 
not have explained clearly yet.

Daniel

Re: [PATCH 03/29] mm: slb: add knowledge of reserve pages

[Daniel Phillips]

On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Restrict objects from reserve slabs (ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS) to
> allocation contexts that are entitled to it. This is done to ensure
> reserve pages don't leak out and get consumed.

Tighter definitions of "leak out" and "get consumed" would be helpful 
here.  As I see it, the chain of reasoning is:

  * Any MEMALLOC mode allocation must have come from a properly
   throttled path and  has a finite lifetime that must eventually
   produce writeout  progress.

  * Since the transaction that made the allocation was throttled and
    must have a finite lifetime, we  know that it must eventually return
    the resources it consumed to the appropriate resource pool.

Now, I think what you mean by "get consumed" and "leak out" is: "become 
pinned by false sharing with other allocations that do not guarantee 
that they will be returned to the resource pool".  We can say "pinned" 
for short.

So you are attempting to prevent slab pages from becoming pinned by 
users that do not obey the reserve management rules, which I think your 
approach achieves.  However...

Note that false sharing of slab pages is still possible between two 
unrelated writeout processes, both of which obey rules for their own 
writeout path, but the pinned combination does not.  This still leaves 
a hole through which a deadlock may slip.

My original solution was simply to allocate a full page when drawing 
from the memaloc reserve, which may use a tad more reserve, but makes 
it possible to prove the algorithm correct.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: [PATCH 03/29] mm: slb: add knowledge of reserve pages

[Daniel Phillips]

On Friday 14 December 2007 14:51, I wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2007 07:39, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Note that false sharing of slab pages is still possible between two
> unrelated writeout processes, both of which obey rules for their own
> writeout path, but the pinned combination does not.  This still
> leaves a hole through which a deadlock may slip.

Actually, no it doesn't.  It in fact does not matter how many unrelated 
writeout processes, block devices, whatevers share a slab cache.  
Sufficient reserve pages must have been made available (in a perfect 
work, by adding extra pages to the memalloc reserve on driver 
initialization, in the real world just by having a big memalloc 
reserve) to populate the slab up to the sum of the required objects for 
all memalloc users sharing the cache.

So I think this slab technique of yours is fundamentally sound, that is 
to say, adding a new per-slab flag to keep unbounded numbers of slab 
objects with unbounded lifetimes from mixing with the bounded number of 
slab objects with bounded lifetimes.

Ponder.  OK, here is another issue.  Suppose a driver expands the 
memalloc reserve by the X number of pages it needs on initialization, 
and shrinks it by the same amount on removal, as is right and proper.  
The problem is, less than the number of slab pages that got pulled into 
slab on behalf of the removed driver may be freed (or made freeable) 
back to the global reserve, due to page sharing with an unrelated user.   
In theory, the global reserve could be completely depleted by this slab 
fragmentation.

OK, that is like the case that I mistakenly raised in the previous mail, 
though far less likely to occur, because driver removals are relatively 
rare and so would be a fragmentation case so severe as to cause global 
reserve depletion.

Even so, if this possibility bothers anybody, it is fairly easy to plug 
the hole: associate each slab with a given memalloc user instead of 
just having one bit to classify users.  So unrelated memalloc users 
would never share a slab, no false sharing, everybody happy.  The cost: 
a new pointer field per slab and a few additional lines of code.

Regards,

Daniel

Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

[Bill Davidsen]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Another posting of the full swap over NFS series. 
> 
> Andrew/Linus, could we start thinking of sticking this in -mm?
> 

Two questions:
1 - what is the memory use impact on the system which don't do swap over 
NFS, such as embedded systems, and
2 - what is the advantage of this code over the two existing network 
swap approaches, swapping to NFS mounted file and swap to NBD device?

I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that 
seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, 
so what's better here?

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

Re: [PATCH 00/29] Swap over NFS -v15

[Peter Zijlstra]

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On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:22 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Another posting of the full swap over NFS series. 
> > 
> > Andrew/Linus, could we start thinking of sticking this in -mm?
> > 
> 
> Two questions:
> 1 - what is the memory use impact on the system which don't do swap over 
> NFS, such as embedded systems, and

It should have little to no impact if not used.

> 2 - what is the advantage of this code over the two existing network 
> swap approaches, 

> swapping to NFS mounted file and 

This is not actually possible with a recent kernel, current swapfile
support requires a blockdevice.

> swap to NBD device?

> I've used the NFS file when a program was running out of memory and that 
> seemed to work, people in UNYUUG have reported that the nbd swap works, 
> so what's better here?

swap over NBD works sometimes, its rather easy to deadlock, and its
impossible to recover from a broken connection.

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