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authorYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>2018-01-31 16:19:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-31 17:18:39 -0800
commit9c3760eb80880f3e02546e0a2ef479e1454986b3 (patch)
treee0f90aca53a602676bf50160ad1efbe0ac66a352 /mm/zpool.c
parenta7ab400d6fe73d0119fdc234e9982a6f80faea9f (diff)
downloadlinux-rt-9c3760eb80880f3e02546e0a2ef479e1454986b3.tar.gz
zswap: only save zswap header when necessary
We waste sizeof(swp_entry_t) for zswap header when using zsmalloc as zpool driver because zsmalloc doesn't support eviction. Add zpool_evictable() to detect if zpool is potentially evictable, and use it in zswap to avoid waste memory for zswap header. [yuzhao@google.com: The zpool->" prefix is a result of copy & paste] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110225626.110330-1-yuzhao@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180110224741.83751-1-yuzhao@google.com Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/zpool.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/zpool.c25
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/zpool.c b/mm/zpool.c
index fd3ff719c32c..e1e7aa6d1d06 100644
--- a/mm/zpool.c
+++ b/mm/zpool.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct zpool {
struct zpool_driver *driver;
void *pool;
const struct zpool_ops *ops;
+ bool evictable;
struct list_head list;
};
@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(zpool_has_pool);
*
* This creates a new zpool of the specified type. The gfp flags will be
* used when allocating memory, if the implementation supports it. If the
- * ops param is NULL, then the created zpool will not be shrinkable.
+ * ops param is NULL, then the created zpool will not be evictable.
*
* Implementations must guarantee this to be thread-safe.
*
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@ struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(const char *type, const char *name, gfp_t gfp,
zpool->driver = driver;
zpool->pool = driver->create(name, gfp, ops, zpool);
zpool->ops = ops;
+ zpool->evictable = driver->shrink && ops && ops->evict;
if (!zpool->pool) {
pr_err("couldn't create %s pool\n", type);
@@ -296,7 +298,8 @@ void zpool_free(struct zpool *zpool, unsigned long handle)
int zpool_shrink(struct zpool *zpool, unsigned int pages,
unsigned int *reclaimed)
{
- return zpool->driver->shrink(zpool->pool, pages, reclaimed);
+ return zpool->driver->shrink ?
+ zpool->driver->shrink(zpool->pool, pages, reclaimed) : -EINVAL;
}
/**
@@ -355,6 +358,24 @@ u64 zpool_get_total_size(struct zpool *zpool)
return zpool->driver->total_size(zpool->pool);
}
+/**
+ * zpool_evictable() - Test if zpool is potentially evictable
+ * @pool The zpool to test
+ *
+ * Zpool is only potentially evictable when it's created with struct
+ * zpool_ops.evict and its driver implements struct zpool_driver.shrink.
+ *
+ * However, it doesn't necessarily mean driver will use zpool_ops.evict
+ * in its implementation of zpool_driver.shrink. It could do internal
+ * defragmentation instead.
+ *
+ * Returns: true if potentially evictable; false otherwise.
+ */
+bool zpool_evictable(struct zpool *zpool)
+{
+ return zpool->evictable;
+}
+
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Common API for compressed memory storage");