From 3399446632739fcd05fd8b272b476a69c6e6d14a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:38:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] swap: discard while swapping only if SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD 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 Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: James Bottomley Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/swap.h | 3 ++- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h index bf4eb62506d..7cdd63366f8 100644 --- a/include/linux/swap.h +++ b/include/linux/swap.h @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ struct bio; #define SWAP_FLAG_PREFER 0x8000 /* set if swap priority specified */ #define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_MASK 0x7fff #define SWAP_FLAG_PRIO_SHIFT 0 +#define SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD 0x10000 /* discard swap cluster after use */ static inline int current_is_kswapd(void) { @@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ struct swap_extent { enum { SWP_USED = (1 << 0), /* is slot in swap_info[] used? */ SWP_WRITEOK = (1 << 1), /* ok to write to this swap? */ - SWP_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 2), /* blkdev supports discard */ + SWP_DISCARDABLE = (1 << 2), /* swapon+blkdev support discard */ SWP_DISCARDING = (1 << 3), /* now discarding a free cluster */ SWP_SOLIDSTATE = (1 << 4), /* blkdev seeks are cheap */ SWP_CONTINUED = (1 << 5), /* swap_map has count continuation */ diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 1894dead0b5..7c703ff2f36 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -2047,7 +2047,7 @@ 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; } -- 2.20.1