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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2022-01-21 22:14:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-01-22 08:33:38 +0200 |
| commit | 0a4ee518185e902758191d968600399f3bc2be31 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bab9e953592626c4c0cf7ce6a4f7dd986421c4a /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | e940066089490efde86abc519593be84362f4e53 (diff) | |
mm: remove cleancache
Patch series "remove Xen tmem leftovers".
Since the removal of the Xen tmem driver in 2019, the cleancache hooks
are entirely unused, as are large parts of frontswap. This series
against linux-next (with the folio changes included) removes
cleancaches, and cuts down frontswap to the bits actually used by zswap.
This patch (of 13):
The cleancache subsystem is unused since the removal of Xen tmem driver
in commit 814bbf49dcd0 ("xen: remove tmem driver").
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unreachable code]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-1-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index a99bd499ef51..430240289b02 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -444,28 +444,6 @@ config USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA bool -config CLEANCACHE - bool "Enable cleancache driver to cache clean pages if tmem is present" - 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 use - cleancache code to put the data contained in that page into - "transcendent memory", memory that 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 transcendent memory driver is available (such as zcache or - Xen transcendent memory), 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 - config FRONTSWAP bool "Enable frontswap to cache swap pages if tmem is present" depends on SWAP |