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diff --git a/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig index 7db0592..843c541 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig @@ -14,3 +14,17 @@ config ZCACHE2 technical disagreements. It is intended that they will merge again in the future. Until then, zcache2 is a single-node version of ramster. + +config RAMSTER + bool "Cross-machine RAM capacity sharing, aka peer-to-peer tmem" + depends on CONFIGFS_FS=y && SYSFS=y && !HIGHMEM && ZCACHE2=y + # must ensure struct page is 8-byte aligned + select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if !64_BIT + default n + help + RAMster allows RAM on other machines in a cluster to be utilized + dynamically and symmetrically instead of swapping to a local swap + disk, thus improving performance on memory-constrained workloads + while minimizing total RAM across the cluster. RAMster, like + zcache2, compresses swap pages into local RAM, but then remotifies + the compressed pages to another node in the RAMster cluster. |