staging: zcache: zero-filled pages awareness
authorWanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 02:46:14 +0000 (10:46 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Apr 2013 19:49:51 +0000 (12:49 -0700)
Compression of zero-filled pages can unneccessarily cause internal
fragmentation, and thus waste memory. This special case can be
optimized.

This patch captures zero-filled pages, and marks their corresponding
zcache backing page entry as zero-filled. Whenever such zero-filled
page is retrieved, we fill the page frame with zero.

Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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