From dcf6b7ddd7df8965727746f89c59229b23180e5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafael Aquini Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:02:46 -0700 Subject: swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES Considering the use cases where the swap device supports discard: a) and can do it quickly; b) but it's slow to do in small granularities (or concurrent with other I/O); c) but the implementation is so horrendous that you don't even want to send one down; And assuming that the sysadmin considers it useful to send the discards down at all, we would (probably) want the following solutions: i. do the fine-grained discards for freed swap pages, if device is capable of doing so optimally; ii. do single-time (batched) swap area discards, either at swapon or via something like fstrim (not implemented yet); iii. allow doing both single-time and fine-grained discards; or iv. turn it off completely (default behavior) As implemented today, one can only enable/disable discards for swap, but one cannot select, for instance, solution (ii) on a swap device like (b) even though the single-time discard is regarded to be interesting, or necessary to the workload because it would imply (1), and the device is not capable of performing it optimally. This patch addresses the scenario depicted above by introducing a way to ensure the (probably) wanted solutions (i, ii, iii and iv) can be flexibly flagged through swapon(8) to allow a sysadmin to select the best suitable swap discard policy accordingly to system constraints. This patch introduces SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES and SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_ONCE new flags to allow more flexibe swap discard policies being flagged through swapon(8). The default behavior is to keep both single-time, or batched, area discards (SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_ONCE) and fine-grained discards for page-clusters (SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES) enabled, in order to keep consistentcy with older kernel behavior, as well as maintain compatibility with older swapon(8). However, through the new introduced flags the best suitable discard policy can be selected accordingly to any given swap device constraint. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Karel Zak Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swap.h | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index 85d74373002c..d95cde5e257d 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ struct bio; #define SWAP_FLAG_PREFER 0x8000 /* set if swap priority specified */ #define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK 0x7fff #define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_SHIFT 0 -#define SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD 0x10000 /* discard swap cluster after use */ +#define SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD 0x10000 /* enable discard for swap */ +#define SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_ONCE 0x20000 /* discard swap area at swapon-time */ +#define SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES 0x40000 /* discard page-clusters after use */ #define SWAP_FLAGS_VALID (SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK | SWAP_FLAG_PREFER | \ - SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD) + SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD | SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_ONCE | \ + SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD_PAGES) static inline int current_is_kswapd(void) { @@ -147,14 +150,16 @@ struct swap_extent { enum { SWP_USED = (1 << 0), /* is slot in swap_info[] used? */ SWP_WRITEOK = (1 << 1), /* ok to write to this swap? */ - SWP_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 2), /* swapon+blkdev support discard */ + SWP_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 2), /* blkdev support discard */ SWP_DISCARDING = (1 << 3), /* now discarding a free cluster */ SWP_SOLIDSTATE = (1 << 4), /* blkdev seeks are cheap */ SWP_CONTINUED = (1 << 5), /* swap_map has count continuation */ SWP_BLKDEV = (1 << 6), /* its a block device */ SWP_FILE = (1 << 7), /* set after swap_activate success */ + SWP_AREA_DISCARD = (1 << 8), /* single-time swap area discards */ + SWP_PAGE_DISCARD = (1 << 9), /* freed swap page-cluster discards */ /* add others here before... */ - SWP_SCANNING = (1 << 8), /* refcount in scan_swap_map */ + SWP_SCANNING = (1 << 10), /* refcount in scan_swap_map */ }; #define SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX 32UL -- cgit v1.2.3