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* Tmem [PATCH 4/5] (Take 3): Add mm buildfiles
@ 2009-12-18  0:38 Dan Magenheimer
  2009-12-18  1:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Magenheimer @ 2009-12-18  0:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: dan.magenheimer, npiggin, akpm, jeremy, xen-devel, tmem-devel,
	kurt.hackel, Russell, Rik van Riel, dave.mccracken, linux-mm,
	Rusty, sunil.mushran, Avi Kivity, Schwidefsky, Balbir Singh,
	Marcelo Tosatti, alan, chris.mason, Pavel Machek

Tmem [PATCH 4/5] (Take 3): Add mm buildfiles

Add necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes to mm directory

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>

 Kconfig                                  |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++
 Makefile                                 |    3 ++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.32/mm/Kconfig	2009-12-02 20:51:21.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.32-tmem/mm/Kconfig	2009-12-17 13:56:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -287,3 +287,29 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
 	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
 
 	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
+
+#
+# support for transcendent memory
+#
+config TMEM
+	bool "Transcendent memory support"
+	help
+	  In a virtualized environment, allows unused and underutilized
+	  system physical memory to be made accessible through a narrow
+	  well-defined page-copy-based API.
+
+config CLEANCACHE
+	bool "Cache clean pages in transcendent memory"
+	depends on TMEM
+	help
+	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used to store clean
+	  page-cache pages which, under some circumstances, will greatly
+	  reduce paging and thus improve performance.
+
+config FRONTSWAP
+	bool "Swap pages to transcendent memory"
+	depends on TMEM
+	help
+	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used as a pseudo-swap
+	  device which, under some circumstances, will greatly reduce
+	  swapping and thus improve performance.
--- linux-2.6.32/mm/Makefile	2009-12-02 20:51:21.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.32-tmem/mm/Makefile	2009-12-17 14:23:40.000000000 -0700
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ obj-y += init-mm.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE)	+= bounce.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)	+= page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_TMEM)	+= tmem.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)	+= frontswap.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CLEANCACHE) += cleancache.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)	+= dmapool.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)	+= hugetlb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) 	+= mempolicy.o

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* Re: Tmem [PATCH 4/5] (Take 3): Add mm buildfiles
  2009-12-18  0:38 Tmem [PATCH 4/5] (Take 3): Add mm buildfiles Dan Magenheimer
@ 2009-12-18  1:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2009-12-18  1:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Magenheimer
  Cc: linux-kernel, npiggin, akpm, xen-devel, tmem-devel, kurt.hackel,
	Russell, Rik van Riel, dave.mccracken, linux-mm, Rusty,
	sunil.mushran, Avi Kivity, Schwidefsky, Balbir Singh,
	Marcelo Tosatti, alan, chris.mason, Pavel Machek

On 12/17/2009 04:38 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> Tmem [PATCH 4/5] (Take 3): Add mm buildfiles
>
> Add necessary Kconfig and Makefile changes to mm directory
>    

These should be part of their respective tmem-core/frontswap/cleancache 
patches.

     J

> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer<dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
>
>   Kconfig                                  |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   Makefile                                 |    3 ++
>   2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
>
> --- linux-2.6.32/mm/Kconfig	2009-12-02 20:51:21.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.32-tmem/mm/Kconfig	2009-12-17 13:56:46.000000000 -0700
> @@ -287,3 +287,29 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
>   	  of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
>
>   	  See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
> +
> +#
> +# support for transcendent memory
> +#
> +config TMEM
> +	bool "Transcendent memory support"
> +	help
> +	  In a virtualized environment, allows unused and underutilized
> +	  system physical memory to be made accessible through a narrow
> +	  well-defined page-copy-based API.
> +
> +config CLEANCACHE
> +	bool "Cache clean pages in transcendent memory"
> +	depends on TMEM
> +	help
> +	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used to store clean
> +	  page-cache pages which, under some circumstances, will greatly
> +	  reduce paging and thus improve performance.
> +
> +config FRONTSWAP
> +	bool "Swap pages to transcendent memory"
> +	depends on TMEM
> +	help
> +	  Allows the transcendent memory pool to be used as a pseudo-swap
> +	  device which, under some circumstances, will greatly reduce
> +	  swapping and thus improve performance.
> --- linux-2.6.32/mm/Makefile	2009-12-02 20:51:21.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.32-tmem/mm/Makefile	2009-12-17 14:23:40.000000000 -0700
> @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ obj-y += init-mm.o
>
>   obj-$(CONFIG_BOUNCE)	+= bounce.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_SWAP)	+= page_io.o swap_state.o swapfile.o thrash.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_TMEM)	+= tmem.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_FRONTSWAP)	+= frontswap.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CLEANCACHE) += cleancache.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)	+= dmapool.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLBFS)	+= hugetlb.o
>   obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) 	+= mempolicy.o
>
>    

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