[PATCH V4 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration
Cleancache core ops functions and configuration
Credits: Cleancache_ops design derived from Jeremy Fitzhardinge
design for tmem; sysfs code modelled after mm/ksm.c
Note that CONFIG_CLEANCACHE defaults to on; all hooks devolve
to a compare-function-pointer-to-NULL so performance impact should
be negligible, but can be reduced to zero impact if config'ed off.
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <[email protected]>
Diffstat:
include/linux/cleancache.h | 101 ++++++++++
mm/Kconfig | 22 ++
mm/Makefile | 1
mm/cleancache.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 325 insertions(+)
--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/include/linux/cleancache.h 1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/include/linux/cleancache.h 2010-08-30 14:54:31.000000000 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H
+#define _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H
+
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/exportfs.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+
+#define CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX 6
+
+struct cleancache_filekey {
+ union {
+ ino_t ino;
+ __u32 fh[CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX];
+ u32 key[CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX];
+ } u;
+};
+
+struct cleancache_ops {
+ int (*init_fs)(size_t);
+ int (*init_shared_fs)(char *uuid, size_t);
+ int (*get_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey,
+ pgoff_t, struct page *);
+ void (*put_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey,
+ pgoff_t, struct page *);
+ void (*flush_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey, pgoff_t);
+ void (*flush_inode)(int, struct cleancache_filekey);
+ void (*flush_fs)(int);
+};
+
+extern struct cleancache_ops cleancache_ops;
+extern int __cleancache_get_page(struct page *);
+extern void __cleancache_put_page(struct page *);
+extern void __cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *, struct page *);
+extern void __cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CLEANCACHE
+#define cleancache_enabled (cleancache_ops.init_fs)
+#else
+#define cleancache_enabled (0)
+#endif
+
+/* called by a cleancache-enabled filesystem at time of mount */
+static inline int cleancache_init_fs(size_t pagesize)
+{
+ int ret = -1;
+
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ ret = (*cleancache_ops.init_fs)(pagesize);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/* called by a cleancache-enabled clustered filesystem at time of mount */
+static inline int cleancache_init_shared_fs(char *uuid, size_t pagesize)
+{
+ int ret = -1;
+
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ ret = (*cleancache_ops.init_shared_fs)(uuid, pagesize);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int cleancache_get_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ int ret = -1;
+
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ ret = __cleancache_get_page(page);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline void cleancache_put_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ __cleancache_put_page(page);
+}
+
+static inline void cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ __cleancache_flush_page(mapping, page);
+}
+
+static inline void cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ if (cleancache_enabled)
+ __cleancache_flush_inode(mapping);
+}
+
+/*
+ * called by any cleancache-enabled filesystem at time of unmount;
+ * note that pool_id is surrendered and may be returned by a subsequent
+ * cleancache_init_fs or cleancache_init_shared_fs
+ */
+static inline void cleancache_flush_fs(int pool_id)
+{
+ if (cleancache_enabled && pool_id >= 0)
+ (*cleancache_ops.flush_fs)(pool_id);
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H */
--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/cleancache.c 1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/cleancache.c 2010-08-30 14:58:40.000000000 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+/*
+ * Cleancache frontend
+ *
+ * This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
+ * "backend" driver implementation of cleancache. See
+ * Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt for more information.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved.
+ * Author: Dan Magenheimer
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/exportfs.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/cleancache.h>
+
+/*
+ * cleancache_ops contains the pointers to the cleancache "backend"
+ * implementation functions. This global variable may be checked thousands
+ * of times per second by cleancache_get/put/flush_page even on systems
+ * where cleancache_ops is not claimed (e.g. cleancache stays disabled),
+ * so is preferred to the slower alternative: a function call that
+ * checks a non-global.
+ */
+struct cleancache_ops cleancache_ops;
+
+/* useful stats available in /sys/kernel/mm/cleancache */
+static unsigned long succ_gets;
+static unsigned long failed_gets;
+static unsigned long puts;
+static unsigned long flushes;
+
+/*
+ * If the filesystem uses exportable filehandles, use the filehandle as
+ * the key, else use the inode number.
+ */
+static int get_key(struct inode *inode, struct cleancache_filekey *key)
+{
+ int (*fhfn)(struct dentry *, __u32 *fh, int *, int);
+ int maxlen = CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX;
+ struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+ struct dentry *d;
+
+ if (sb->s_export_op && (fhfn = sb->s_export_op->encode_fh)) {
+ d = list_first_entry(&inode->i_dentry, struct dentry, d_alias);
+ (void)(*fhfn)(d, &key->u.fh[0], &maxlen, 0);
+ if (maxlen > CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX)
+ return -1;
+ }
+ else
+ key->u.ino = inode->i_ino;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * "Get" data from cleancache associated with the poolid/inode/index
+ * that were specified when the data was put to cleanache and, if
+ * successful, use it to fill the specified page with data and return 0.
+ * The pageframe is unchanged and returns -1 if the get fails.
+ * Page must be locked by caller.
+ */
+int __cleancache_get_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ int ret = -1;
+ int pool_id;
+ struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
+
+ VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+ pool_id = page->mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
+ if (pool_id < 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ if (get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) < 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ ret = (*cleancache_ops.get_page)(pool_id, key, page->index, page);
+ if (ret == 0)
+ succ_gets++;
+ else
+ failed_gets++;
+out:
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_get_page);
+
+/*
+ * "Put" data from a page to cleancache and associate it with the
+ * (previously-obtained per-filesystem) poolid and the page's,
+ * inode and page index. Page must be locked. Note that a put_page
+ * always "succeeds", though a subsequent get_page may succeed or fail.
+ */
+void __cleancache_put_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ int pool_id;
+ struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
+
+ VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+ pool_id = page->mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
+ if (pool_id >= 0 && get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) >= 0) {
+ (*cleancache_ops.put_page)(pool_id, key, page->index, page);
+ puts++;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Flush any data from cleancache associated with the poolid and the
+ * page's inode and page index so that a subsequent "get" will fail.
+ */
+void __cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+ int pool_id = mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
+ struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
+
+ if (pool_id >= 0) {
+ VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+ if (get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) >= 0) {
+ (*cleancache_ops.flush_page)(pool_id, key, page->index);
+ flushes++;
+ }
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_flush_page);
+
+/*
+ * Flush all data from cleancache associated with the poolid and the
+ * mappings's inode so that all subsequent gets to this poolid/inode
+ * will fail.
+ */
+void __cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ int pool_id = mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
+ struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
+
+ if (pool_id >= 0 && get_key(mapping->host,&key) >= 0)
+ (*cleancache_ops.flush_inode)(pool_id, key);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_flush_inode);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
+
+/* see Documentation/ABI/xxx/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache */
+
+#define CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(_name) \
+ static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
+
+static ssize_t succ_gets_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", succ_gets);
+}
+CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(succ_gets);
+
+static ssize_t failed_gets_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", failed_gets);
+}
+CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(failed_gets);
+
+static ssize_t puts_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", puts);
+}
+CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(puts);
+
+static ssize_t flushes_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", flushes);
+}
+CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(flushes);
+
+static struct attribute *cleancache_attrs[] = {
+ &succ_gets_attr.attr,
+ &failed_gets_attr.attr,
+ &puts_attr.attr,
+ &flushes_attr.attr,
+ NULL,
+};
+
+static struct attribute_group cleancache_attr_group = {
+ .attrs = cleancache_attrs,
+ .name = "cleancache",
+};
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
+
+static int __init init_cleancache(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
+ int err;
+
+ err = sysfs_create_group(mm_kobj, &cleancache_attr_group);
+#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
+ return 0;
+}
+module_init(init_cleancache)
--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/Kconfig 2010-08-29 09:36:04.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/Kconfig 2010-08-30 09:20:43.000000000 -0600
@@ -301,3 +301,25 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
+
+config CLEANCACHE
+ bool "Enable cleancache pseudo-RAM driver to cache clean pages"
+ default y
+ help
+ Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
+ for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
+ (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
+ memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to put
+ it into a synchronous concurrency-safe page-oriented pseudo-RAM
+ device (such as Xen's Transcendent Memory, aka "tmem") which is not
+ directly accessible or addressable by the kernel and is of unknown
+ (and possibly time-varying) size. And when a cleancache-enabled
+ filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
+ checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
+ the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
+ When a pseudo-RAM device is available, a significant I/O reduction
+ may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
+ are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
+ in a negligible performance hit.
+
+ If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
--- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/Makefile 2010-08-29 09:36:04.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/Makefile 2010-08-30 09:20:43.000000000 -0600
@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) += memory-f
obj-$(CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT) += hwpoison-inject.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o
obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST) += kmemleak-test.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CLEANCACHE) += cleancache.o
On 08/30/2010 03:31 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> [PATCH V4 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration
>
> Cleancache core ops functions and configuration
>
> Credits: Cleancache_ops design derived from Jeremy Fitzhardinge
> design for tmem; sysfs code modelled after mm/ksm.c
>
> Note that CONFIG_CLEANCACHE defaults to on; all hooks devolve
> to a compare-function-pointer-to-NULL so performance impact should
> be negligible, but can be reduced to zero impact if config'ed off.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <[email protected]>
>
> Diffstat:
> include/linux/cleancache.h | 101 ++++++++++
> mm/Kconfig | 22 ++
> mm/Makefile | 1
> mm/cleancache.c | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 325 insertions(+)
>
> --- linux-2.6.36-rc3/include/linux/cleancache.h 1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/include/linux/cleancache.h 2010-08-30 14:54:31.000000000 -0600
> @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H
> +#define _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H
> +
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/exportfs.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +
> +#define CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX 6
> +
> +struct cleancache_filekey {
> + union {
> + ino_t ino;
> + __u32 fh[CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX];
> + u32 key[CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX];
> + } u;
> +};
> +
> +struct cleancache_ops {
> + int (*init_fs)(size_t);
> + int (*init_shared_fs)(char *uuid, size_t);
> + int (*get_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey,
> + pgoff_t, struct page *);
> + void (*put_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey,
> + pgoff_t, struct page *);
> + void (*flush_page)(int, struct cleancache_filekey, pgoff_t);
> + void (*flush_inode)(int, struct cleancache_filekey);
> + void (*flush_fs)(int);
> +};
> +
> +extern struct cleancache_ops cleancache_ops;
> +extern int __cleancache_get_page(struct page *);
> +extern void __cleancache_put_page(struct page *);
> +extern void __cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *, struct page *);
> +extern void __cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CLEANCACHE
> +#define cleancache_enabled (cleancache_ops.init_fs)
Pointers can be used in a boolean context, but it would probably be
cleaner to have this evaluate to a proper boolean type. Also I'd
probably go with an all-caps macro name rather than making it look like
a variable.
> +#else
> +#define cleancache_enabled (0)
> +#endif
> +
> +/* called by a cleancache-enabled filesystem at time of mount */
> +static inline int cleancache_init_fs(size_t pagesize)
> +{
> + int ret = -1;
> +
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + ret = (*cleancache_ops.init_fs)(pagesize);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +/* called by a cleancache-enabled clustered filesystem at time of mount */
> +static inline int cleancache_init_shared_fs(char *uuid, size_t pagesize)
> +{
> + int ret = -1;
> +
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + ret = (*cleancache_ops.init_shared_fs)(uuid, pagesize);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int cleancache_get_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + int ret = -1;
> +
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + ret = __cleancache_get_page(page);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void cleancache_put_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + __cleancache_put_page(page);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> + struct page *page)
> +{
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + __cleancache_flush_page(mapping, page);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *mapping)
> +{
> + if (cleancache_enabled)
> + __cleancache_flush_inode(mapping);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * called by any cleancache-enabled filesystem at time of unmount;
> + * note that pool_id is surrendered and may be returned by a subsequent
> + * cleancache_init_fs or cleancache_init_shared_fs
> + */
> +static inline void cleancache_flush_fs(int pool_id)
> +{
> + if (cleancache_enabled && pool_id >= 0)
> + (*cleancache_ops.flush_fs)(pool_id);
> +}
> +
> +#endif /* _LINUX_CLEANCACHE_H */
> --- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/cleancache.c 1969-12-31 17:00:00.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/cleancache.c 2010-08-30 14:58:40.000000000 -0600
> @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
> +/*
> + * Cleancache frontend
> + *
> + * This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
> + * "backend" driver implementation of cleancache. See
> + * Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt for more information.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved.
> + * Author: Dan Magenheimer
> + *
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/exportfs.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/cleancache.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * cleancache_ops contains the pointers to the cleancache "backend"
> + * implementation functions. This global variable may be checked thousands
> + * of times per second by cleancache_get/put/flush_page even on systems
> + * where cleancache_ops is not claimed (e.g. cleancache stays disabled),
> + * so is preferred to the slower alternative: a function call that
> + * checks a non-global.
> + */
> +struct cleancache_ops cleancache_ops;
> +
> +/* useful stats available in /sys/kernel/mm/cleancache */
> +static unsigned long succ_gets;
> +static unsigned long failed_gets;
> +static unsigned long puts;
> +static unsigned long flushes;
I'd probably give these very generic-sounding names some slightly unique
prefix just to help out people looking at "nm" output or using ctags.
> +
> +/*
> + * If the filesystem uses exportable filehandles, use the filehandle as
> + * the key, else use the inode number.
> + */
> +static int get_key(struct inode *inode, struct cleancache_filekey *key)
Ditto.
> +{
> + int (*fhfn)(struct dentry *, __u32 *fh, int *, int);
> + int maxlen = CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX;
> + struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> + struct dentry *d;
> +
> + if (sb->s_export_op && (fhfn = sb->s_export_op->encode_fh)) {
> + d = list_first_entry(&inode->i_dentry, struct dentry, d_alias);
> + (void)(*fhfn)(d, &key->u.fh[0], &maxlen, 0);
> + if (maxlen > CLEANCACHE_KEY_MAX)
> + return -1;
> + }
> + else
> + key->u.ino = inode->i_ino;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * "Get" data from cleancache associated with the poolid/inode/index
> + * that were specified when the data was put to cleanache and, if
> + * successful, use it to fill the specified page with data and return 0.
> + * The pageframe is unchanged and returns -1 if the get fails.
> + * Page must be locked by caller.
> + */
> +int __cleancache_get_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + int ret = -1;
> + int pool_id;
> + struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> + pool_id = page->mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
> + if (pool_id < 0)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) < 0)
> + goto out;
> +
> + ret = (*cleancache_ops.get_page)(pool_id, key, page->index, page);
> + if (ret == 0)
> + succ_gets++;
> + else
> + failed_gets++;
> +out:
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_get_page);
> +
> +/*
> + * "Put" data from a page to cleancache and associate it with the
> + * (previously-obtained per-filesystem) poolid and the page's,
> + * inode and page index. Page must be locked. Note that a put_page
> + * always "succeeds", though a subsequent get_page may succeed or fail.
> + */
> +void __cleancache_put_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + int pool_id;
> + struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> + pool_id = page->mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
> + if (pool_id >= 0 && get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) >= 0) {
> + (*cleancache_ops.put_page)(pool_id, key, page->index, page);
> + puts++;
> + }
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Flush any data from cleancache associated with the poolid and the
> + * page's inode and page index so that a subsequent "get" will fail.
> + */
> +void __cleancache_flush_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
> +{
> + int pool_id = mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
> + struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
> +
> + if (pool_id >= 0) {
> + VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
> + if (get_key(page->mapping->host,&key) >= 0) {
> + (*cleancache_ops.flush_page)(pool_id, key, page->index);
> + flushes++;
> + }
> + }
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_flush_page);
> +
> +/*
> + * Flush all data from cleancache associated with the poolid and the
> + * mappings's inode so that all subsequent gets to this poolid/inode
> + * will fail.
> + */
> +void __cleancache_flush_inode(struct address_space *mapping)
> +{
> + int pool_id = mapping->host->i_sb->cleancache_poolid;
> + struct cleancache_filekey key = { .u.key = { 0 } };
> +
> + if (pool_id >= 0 && get_key(mapping->host,&key) >= 0)
> + (*cleancache_ops.flush_inode)(pool_id, key);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cleancache_flush_inode);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> +
> +/* see Documentation/ABI/xxx/sysfs-kernel-mm-cleancache */
> +
> +#define CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(_name) \
> + static struct kobj_attribute _name##_attr = __ATTR_RO(_name)
> +
> +static ssize_t succ_gets_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", succ_gets);
> +}
> +CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(succ_gets);
> +
> +static ssize_t failed_gets_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", failed_gets);
> +}
> +CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(failed_gets);
> +
> +static ssize_t puts_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", puts);
> +}
> +CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(puts);
> +
> +static ssize_t flushes_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", flushes);
> +}
> +CLEANCACHE_ATTR_RO(flushes);
> +
> +static struct attribute *cleancache_attrs[] = {
> + &succ_gets_attr.attr,
> + &failed_gets_attr.attr,
> + &puts_attr.attr,
> + &flushes_attr.attr,
> + NULL,
> +};
> +
> +static struct attribute_group cleancache_attr_group = {
> + .attrs = cleancache_attrs,
> + .name = "cleancache",
> +};
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
> +
> +static int __init init_cleancache(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> + int err;
> +
> + err = sysfs_create_group(mm_kobj, &cleancache_attr_group);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
> + return 0;
> +}
> +module_init(init_cleancache)
> --- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/Kconfig 2010-08-29 09:36:04.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/Kconfig 2010-08-30 09:20:43.000000000 -0600
> @@ -301,3 +301,25 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS
> of 1 says that all excess pages should be trimmed.
>
> See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
> +
> +config CLEANCACHE
> + bool "Enable cleancache pseudo-RAM driver to cache clean pages"
> + default y
> + help
> + Cleancache can be thought of as a page-granularity victim cache
> + for clean pages that the kernel's pageframe replacement algorithm
> + (PFRA) would like to keep around, but can't since there isn't enough
> + memory. So when the PFRA "evicts" a page, it first attempts to put
> + it into a synchronous concurrency-safe page-oriented pseudo-RAM
> + device (such as Xen's Transcendent Memory, aka "tmem") which is not
> + directly accessible or addressable by the kernel and is of unknown
> + (and possibly time-varying) size. And when a cleancache-enabled
> + filesystem wishes to access a page in a file on disk, it first
> + checks cleancache to see if it already contains it; if it does,
> + the page is copied into the kernel and a disk access is avoided.
> + When a pseudo-RAM device is available, a significant I/O reduction
> + may be achieved. When none is available, all cleancache calls
> + are reduced to a single pointer-compare-against-NULL resulting
> + in a negligible performance hit.
> +
> + If unsure, say Y to enable cleancache
> --- linux-2.6.36-rc3/mm/Makefile 2010-08-29 09:36:04.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6.36-rc3-cleancache/mm/Makefile 2010-08-30 09:20:43.000000000 -0600
> @@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) += memory-f
> obj-$(CONFIG_HWPOISON_INJECT) += hwpoison-inject.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_TEST) += kmemleak-test.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CLEANCACHE) += cleancache.o
>
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CLEANCACHE
> > +#define cleancache_enabled (cleancache_ops.init_fs)
>
> Pointers can be used in a boolean context, but it would probably be
> cleaner to have this evaluate to a proper boolean type. Also I'd
> probably go with an all-caps macro name rather than making it look like
> a variable.
OK, thanks, will fix.
> > +/* useful stats available in /sys/kernel/mm/cleancache */
> > +static unsigned long succ_gets;
> > +static unsigned long failed_gets;
> > +static unsigned long puts;
> > +static unsigned long flushes;
>
> I'd probably give these very generic-sounding names some slightly
> unique
> prefix just to help out people looking at "nm" output or using ctags.
>
> > +static int get_key(struct inode *inode, struct cleancache_filekey
> *key)
>
> Ditto.
OK, will do.
Thanks for the feedback!
Dan