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authorAshwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com>2006-12-06 20:31:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:21 -0800
commit7602bdf2fd14a40dd9b104e516fdc05e1bd17952 (patch)
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[PATCH] new scheme to preempt swap token
The new swap token patches replace the current token traversal algo. The old algo had a crude timeout parameter that was used to handover the token from one task to another. This algo, transfers the token to the tasks that are in need of the token. The urgency for the token is based on the number of times a task is required to swap-in pages. Accordingly, the priority of a task is incremented if it has been badly affected due to swap-outs. To ensure that the token doesnt bounce around rapidly, the token holders are given a priority boost. The priority of tasks is also decremented, if their rate of swap-in's keeps reducing. This way, the condition to check whether to pre-empt the swap token, is a matter of comparing two task's priority fields. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h13
-rw-r--r--include/linux/swap.h1
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index eafe4a7..cad6a16 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -344,9 +344,16 @@ struct mm_struct {
/* Architecture-specific MM context */
mm_context_t context;
- /* Token based thrashing protection. */
- unsigned long swap_token_time;
- char recent_pagein;
+ /* Swap token stuff */
+ /*
+ * Last value of global fault stamp as seen by this process.
+ * In other words, this value gives an indication of how long
+ * it has been since this task got the token.
+ * Look at mm/thrash.c
+ */
+ unsigned int faultstamp;
+ unsigned int token_priority;
+ unsigned int last_interval;
/* coredumping support */
int core_waiters;
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index e7c36ba..89f8a39 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ extern spinlock_t swap_lock;
/* linux/mm/thrash.c */
extern struct mm_struct * swap_token_mm;
-extern unsigned long swap_token_default_timeout;
extern void grab_swap_token(void);
extern void __put_swap_token(struct mm_struct *);