linux/arch/x86
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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boot x86, setup: When probing memory with e801, use ax/bx as a pair 2011-04-25 14:52:37 -07:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - fixed problem with packets that are not multiple of 64bytes 2011-03-27 10:29:39 +08:00
ia32 x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode 2011-03-23 16:36:53 -04:00
include/asm xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory 2011-05-26 10:02:21 -06:00
kernel Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-05-18 03:14:34 -07:00
kvm KVM: move and fix substitue search for missing CPUID entries 2011-04-06 13:15:56 +03:00
lguest x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
lib percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double 2011-03-27 19:25:36 -07:00
math-emu x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation 2010-05-10 13:37:16 -07:00
mm x86/mm: Fix section mismatch derived from native_pagetable_reserve() 2011-05-12 13:05:05 -04:00
oprofile Merge branch 'core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/urgent 2011-03-29 09:32:28 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2011-03-18 10:56:44 -07:00
platform x86: Fix UV BAU for non-consecutive nasids 2011-05-12 23:45:42 +02:00
power x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states 2010-08-20 14:59:02 +02:00
tools
vdso mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm 2011-03-23 16:36:55 -04:00
video
xen x86,xen: introduce x86_init.mapping.pagetable_reserve 2011-05-12 13:05:04 -04:00
.gitignore add random binaries to .gitignore 2010-04-08 11:34:34 +02:00
Kbuild x86: Add platform directory 2010-10-27 14:30:01 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'syscore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-03-25 21:07:59 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
Kconfig.debug kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-21 13:06:00 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug 2010-10-29 14:45:29 -04:00