linux/drivers/xen
Dan Magenheimer 5bc20fc597 xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
This patch provides a shim between the kernel-internal cleancache
API (see Documentation/mm/cleancache.txt) and the Xen Transcendent
Memory ABI (see http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem).

Xen tmem provides "hypervisor RAM" as an ephemeral page-oriented
pseudo-RAM store for cleancache pages, shared cleancache pages,
and frontswap pages.  Tmem provides enterprise-quality concurrency,
full save/restore and live migration support, compression
and deduplication.

A presentation showing up to 8% faster performance and up to 52%
reduction in sectors read on a kernel compile workload, despite
aggressive in-kernel page reclamation ("self-ballooning") can be
found at:

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/tmem/dist/documentation/presentations/TranscendentMemoryXenSummit2010.pdf

Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
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xenbus xen: use freeze/restore/thaw PM events for suspend/resume/chkpt 2011-03-16 13:42:56 -04:00
xenfs Merge branch 'xen/xenbus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-01-20 16:37:28 -08:00
balloon.c Merge branches 'stable/hvc-console', 'stable/gntalloc.v6' and 'stable/balloon' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-03-17 18:16:36 -07:00
biomerge.c xen: define BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE() 2010-10-18 10:40:28 -04:00
cpu_hotplug.c Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-12-11 12:18:16 -08:00
events.c Merge branch 'stable/bug-fixes-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen 2011-04-11 20:01:04 -07:00
evtchn.c Merge branch 'xen/dev-evtchn' into upstream/evtchn 2010-11-18 22:43:38 -08:00
features.c xen: clean up asm/xen/hypervisor.h 2008-12-16 21:50:31 +01:00
gntalloc.c xen/gntalloc,gntdev: Add unmap notify ioctl 2011-02-14 14:16:17 -05:00
gntdev.c xen-gntdev: unlock on error path in gntdev_mmap() 2011-03-24 10:32:45 -04:00
grant-table.c xen/p2m/m2p/gnttab: do not add failed grant maps to m2p override 2011-03-09 19:59:10 -05:00
Kconfig xen: change xen/[gntdev/gntalloc] to default m 2011-02-16 09:30:02 -05:00
Makefile xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
manage.c PM: Add missing syscore_suspend() and syscore_resume() calls 2011-04-20 00:36:11 +02:00
pci.c xen: register xen pci notifier 2010-10-27 18:56:07 +01:00
platform-pci.c xen: no need to delay xen_setup_shutdown_event for hvm guests anymore 2011-02-25 16:43:03 +00:00
swiotlb-xen.c swiotlb-xen: SWIOTLB library for Xen PV guest with PCI passthrough. 2010-07-27 11:51:00 -04:00
sys-hypervisor.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
tmem.c xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
xen-balloon.c xen-balloon: Move core balloon functionality out of module 2011-03-16 10:05:34 -04:00
xencomm.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00