[PATCH 4/4] zcache: promote to drivers/mm/
From: Seth Jennings <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-27 18:19:07
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staging subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds
This patchset promtes the zcache driver from staging to drivers/mm/.
zcache captures swap pages via frontswap and pages that fall
out of the page cache via cleancache and compress them in RAM,
providing a compressed RAM swap and a compressed second-chance
page cache.
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <redacted>
---
drivers/mm/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
drivers/mm/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/Makefile | 0
drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/tmem.c | 0
drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/tmem.h | 0
drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/zcache-main.c | 0
drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 --
drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig | 11 -----------
9 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/mm/Makefile
rename drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/Makefile (100%)
rename drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/tmem.c (100%)
rename drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/tmem.h (100%)
rename drivers/{staging => mm}/zcache/zcache-main.c (100%)
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
diff --git a/drivers/mm/Kconfig b/drivers/mm/Kconfig
index e5b3743..22289c6 100644
--- a/drivers/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/mm/Kconfig@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ menu "Memory management drivers" +config ZCACHE + bool "Dynamic compression of swap pages and clean pagecache pages" + depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CRYPTO=y && ZSMALLOC=y + select CRYPTO_LZO + default n + help + Zcache uses compression and an in-kernel implementation of + transcendent memory to store clean page cache pages and swap + in RAM, providing a noticeable reduction in disk I/O. + endmenu
diff --git a/drivers/mm/Makefile b/drivers/mm/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f36f509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/mm/Makefile@@ -0,0 +1 @@ +obj-$(CONFIG_ZCACHE) += zcache/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/Makefile b/drivers/mm/zcache/Makefile
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/zcache/Makefile
rename to drivers/mm/zcache/Makefile
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/tmem.c b/drivers/mm/zcache/tmem.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/zcache/tmem.c
rename to drivers/mm/zcache/tmem.c
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/tmem.h b/drivers/mm/zcache/tmem.h
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/zcache/tmem.h
rename to drivers/mm/zcache/tmem.h
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/mm/zcache/zcache-main.c
similarity index 100%
rename from drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
rename to drivers/mm/zcache/zcache-main.c
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index b7f7bc7..0940d2e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/iio/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/zram/Kconfig" -source "drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig" - source "drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/Kconfig" source "drivers/staging/wlags49_h25/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
index ad74bee..6e1c491 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IPACK_BUS) += ipack/ obj-$(CONFIG_DX_SEP) += sep/ obj-$(CONFIG_IIO) += iio/ obj-$(CONFIG_ZRAM) += zram/ -obj-$(CONFIG_ZCACHE) += zcache/ obj-$(CONFIG_WLAGS49_H2) += wlags49_h2/ obj-$(CONFIG_WLAGS49_H25) += wlags49_h25/ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_SM7XX) += sm7xxfb/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
deleted file mode 100644
index 4881839..0000000
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/Kconfig
+++ /dev/null@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -config ZCACHE - bool "Dynamic compression of swap pages and clean pagecache pages" - depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CRYPTO=y && ZSMALLOC=y - select CRYPTO_LZO - default n - help - Zcache doubles RAM efficiency while providing a significant - performance boosts on many workloads. Zcache uses - compression and an in-kernel implementation of transcendent - memory to store clean page cache pages and swap in RAM, - providing a noticeable reduction in disk I/O.
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1.7.9.5
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