[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3] frontswap: allow multiple backends
On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:08:46 -0400 Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Change frontswap single pointer to a singly linked list of frontswap > implementations. Update Xen tmem implementation as register no longer > returns anything. > > Frontswap only keeps track of a single implementation; any implementation > that registers second (or later) will replace the previously registered > implementation, and gets a pointer to the previous implementation that > the new implementation is expected to pass all frontswap functions to > if it can't handle the function itself. However that method doesn't > really make much sense, as passing that work on to every implementation > adds unnecessary work to implementations; instead, frontswap should > simply keep a list of all registered implementations and try each > implementation for any function. Most importantly, neither of the > two currently existing frontswap implementations in the kernel actually > do anything with any previous frontswap implementation that they > replace when registering. > > This allows frontswap to successfully manage multiple implementations > by keeping a list of them all. > offtopic trivia: this --- a/mm/frontswap.c~frontswap-allow-multiple-backends-fix +++ a/mm/frontswap.c @@ -111,14 +111,11 @@ static inline void inc_frontswap_invalid */ void frontswap_register_ops(struct frontswap_ops *ops) { - DECLARE_BITMAP(a, MAX_SWAPFILES); - DECLARE_BITMAP(b, MAX_SWAPFILES); + DECLARE_BITMAP(a, MAX_SWAPFILES) = { }; + DECLARE_BITMAP(b, MAX_SWAPFILES) = { }; struct swap_info_struct *si; unsigned int i; - bitmap_zero(a, MAX_SWAPFILES); - bitmap_zero(b, MAX_SWAPFILES); - spin_lock(&swap_lock); plist_for_each_entry(si, &swap_active_head, list) { if (!WARN_ON(!si->frontswap_map)) saves 64 bytes of text with my gcc. It shouldn't be open-coded here, but a new macro in bitmap.h could be useful, assuming it's a win for other sizes of bitmaps. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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