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From c1efec8273372700693661f094324081d8f3ad3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:52:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 82/87] zcache: Set SWIZ_BITS to 8 to reduce tmem bucket lock
 contention.

commit e8b4553457e78bcff90f70a31212a40a8fd4f0db upstream.

SWIZ_BITS > 8 results in a much larger number of "tmem_obj"
allocations, likely one per page-placed-in-frontswap.  The
tmem_obj is not huge (roughly 100 bytes), but it is large
enough to add a not-insignificant memory overhead to zcache.

The SWIZ_BITS=8  will get roughly the same lock contention
without the space wastage.

The effect of SWIZ_BITS can be thought of as "2^SWIZ_BITS is
the number of unique oids that be generated" (This concept is
limited to frontswap's use of tmem).

Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
index 56c1f9c..d3a8e67 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
@@ -1782,9 +1782,9 @@ static int zcache_frontswap_poolid = -1;
  * Swizzling increases objects per swaptype, increasing tmem concurrency
  * for heavy swaploads.  Later, larger nr_cpus -> larger SWIZ_BITS
  * Setting SWIZ_BITS to 27 basically reconstructs the swap entry from
- * frontswap_get_page()
+ * frontswap_get_page(), but has side-effects. Hence using 8.
  */
-#define SWIZ_BITS		27
+#define SWIZ_BITS		8
 #define SWIZ_MASK		((1 << SWIZ_BITS) - 1)
 #define _oswiz(_type, _ind)	((_type << SWIZ_BITS) | (_ind & SWIZ_MASK))
 #define iswiz(_ind)		(_ind >> SWIZ_BITS)
-- 
1.7.7.4