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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2011-08-16	xen: self-balloon needs module.h	Randy Dunlap	1	-0/+1
	Fix build errors (found when CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled): drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: data definition has no type or storage class drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL' drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: data definition has no type or storage class drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'MODULE_LICENSE' drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26	xen/balloon: Fix compile errors - missing header files.	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk	1	-2/+2
	With a specific enough .config file compile errors show for missing workqueue declarations. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-07-08	xen: tmem: self-ballooning and frontswap-selfshrinking	Dan Magenheimer	1	-0/+485
	This patch introduces two in-kernel drivers for Xen transcendent memory ("tmem") functionality that complement cleancache and frontswap. Both use control theory to dynamically adjust and optimize memory utilization. Selfballooning controls the in-kernel Xen balloon driver, targeting a goal value (vm_committed_as), thus pushing less frequently used clean page cache pages (through the cleancache code) into Xen tmem where Xen can balance needs across all VMs residing on the physical machine. Frontswap-selfshrinking controls the number of pages in frontswap, driving it towards zero (effectively doing a partial swapoff) when in-kernel memory pressure subsides, freeing up RAM for other VMs. More detail is provided in the header comment of xen-selfballooning.c. Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> [v8: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: set default enablement depending on frontswap] [v7: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix capitalization and punctuation in comments] [v6: fix frontswap-selfshrinking initialization] [v6: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix init pr_infos; add comments about swap] [v5: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add NULL to attr list; move inits up to decls] [v4: dkiper@net-space.pl: use strict_strtoul plus a few syntactic nits] [v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: fix potential divides-by-zero] [v3: konrad.wilk@oracle.com: add many more comments, fix nits] [v2: rebased to linux-3.0-rc1] [v2: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com: reorganize as new file (xen-selfballoon.c)] [v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: proper access to vm_committed_as] [v2: dkiper@net-space.pl: accounting fixes] Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>