Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:52:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapoff? Message-ID: <200207130652.g6D6qI93076722@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20020713040247.GA82181@edgemaster.zombie.org> <20020713052337.GA662@HAL9000.wox.org> <20020713053236.GA884@HAL9000.wox.org>
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:BTW, NetBSD's new UVM code has the ability to do this. Perhaps
:it's worth looking in to how difficult it would really be in FreeBSD...
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Someone got it mostly working a year or two ago if I remember right
but I don't know what happened to it finally.
Implementing swapoff is a bunch of grunt-work but not too hard in
concept. Basically the work involved is this:
* Make a calculation to be sure that it is possible to turn off
the swap device and not run the system out of VM. If it is not
possible do not allow the swapoff.
* Allocate all the free bitmap bits related to the swap device you
are trying to remove to prevent pageouts to the device you are
removing.
* Flag the swap device being removed and then scan all OBJT_SWAP
VM Objects looking for swap blocks associated with the device,
and force a page-in of those blocks. The getpages code for the
swap backing store would detect the flag and not clear the swap
bitmap bits as it pages-in the data.
(Forcing a pagein may force pages to cycle back out to another
swap device, so special treatment of the paged-in pages (like
immediately placing it in the VM page cache instead of the
active or inactive queues) is necessary to reduce load effects
on the system.
* The swap device being removed can now be closed and the related
swap device index marked free.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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