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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/ksm.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 40 |
2 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt index f34a8ee6f860..0481235589cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt @@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ pages_sharing - how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how much saved pages_unshared - how many pages unique but repeatedly checked for merging pages_volatile - how many pages changing too fast to be placed in a tree full_scans - how many times all mergeable areas have been scanned +deferrable_timer - whether to use deferrable timers or not + e.g. "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/deferrable_timer" + Default: 0 (means, we are not using deferrable timers. Users + might want to set deferrable_timer option if they donot want + ksm thread to wakeup CPU to carryout ksm activities thus + gaining on battery while compromising slightly on memory + that could have been saved.) A high ratio of pages_sharing to pages_shared indicates good sharing, but a high ratio of pages_unshared to pages_sharing indicates wasted effort. @@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ static unsigned int ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = 100; /* Milliseconds ksmd should sleep between batches */ static unsigned int ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20; +/* Boolean to indicate whether to use deferrable timer or not */ +static bool use_deferrable_timer; + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* Zeroed when merging across nodes is not allowed */ static unsigned int ksm_merge_across_nodes = 1; @@ -1705,6 +1708,11 @@ static void ksm_do_scan(unsigned int scan_npages) } } +static void process_timeout(unsigned long __data) +{ + wake_up_process((struct task_struct *)__data); +} + static int ksmd_should_run(void) { return (ksm_run & KSM_RUN_MERGE) && !list_empty(&ksm_mm_head.mm_list); @@ -1712,6 +1720,8 @@ static int ksmd_should_run(void) static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing) { + signed long to; + set_freezable(); set_user_nice(current, 5); @@ -1725,8 +1735,11 @@ static int ksm_scan_thread(void *nothing) try_to_freeze(); if (ksmd_should_run()) { - schedule_timeout_interruptible( - msecs_to_jiffies(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs)); + timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs); + if (use_deferrable_timer) + schedule_timeout_deferrable_interruptible(to); + else + schedule_timeout_interruptible(to); } else { wait_event_freezable(ksm_thread_wait, ksmd_should_run() || kthread_should_stop()); @@ -2175,6 +2188,28 @@ static ssize_t run_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, } KSM_ATTR(run); +static ssize_t deferrable_timer_show(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return snprintf(buf, 8, "%d\n", use_deferrable_timer); +} + +static ssize_t deferrable_timer_store(struct kobject *kobj, + struct kobj_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + unsigned long enable; + int err; + + err = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &enable); + + if (enable == 0 || enable == 1) + use_deferrable_timer = enable; + + return count; +} +KSM_ATTR(deferrable_timer); + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA static ssize_t merge_across_nodes_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -2287,6 +2322,7 @@ static struct attribute *ksm_attrs[] = { &pages_unshared_attr.attr, &pages_volatile_attr.attr, &full_scans_attr.attr, + &deferrable_timer_attr.attr, #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA &merge_across_nodes_attr.attr, #endif |