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| author | Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> | 2010-09-09 16:38:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-09-20 13:36:29 -0700 |
| commit | eb5b5fb7667d74ceeb3c409e20ac0340f48c9d20 (patch) | |
| tree | 658a35479c2b98e3560dafc67600d03843b555ba /mm | |
| parent | b77c254d8d66e5e9aa81239fedba9f3d568097d9 (diff) | |
swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD
commit 3399446632739fcd05fd8b272b476a69c6e6d14a upstream.
Tests with recent firmware on Intel X25-M 80GB and OCZ Vertex 60GB SSDs
show a shift since I last tested in December: in part because of firmware
updates, in part because of the necessary move from barriers to awaiting
completion at the block layer. While discard at swapon still shows as
slightly beneficial on both, discarding 1MB swap cluster when allocating
is now disadvanteous: adds 25% overhead on Intel, adds 230% on OCZ (YMMV).
Surrender: discard as presently implemented is more hindrance than help
for swap; but might prove useful on other devices, or with improvements.
So continue to do the discard at swapon, but make discard while swapping
conditional on a SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD to sys_swapon() (which has been using
only the lower 16 bits of int flags).
We can add a --discard or -d to swapon(8), and a "discard" to swap in
/etc/fstab: matching the mount option for btrfs, ext4, fat, gfs2, nilfs2.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index ed5151079f5..5667db7b36e 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -2050,7 +2050,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) p->flags |= SWP_SOLIDSTATE; p->cluster_next = 1 + (random32() % p->highest_bit); } - if (discard_swap(p) == 0) + if (discard_swap(p) == 0 && (swap_flags & SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD)) p->flags |= SWP_DISCARDABLE; } |