[dm-devel] Re: dmcache project
Wes Felter
wesley at felter.org
Mon Oct 12 20:22:22 UTC 2009
ganesh kumar wrote:
> hello,
> I am working on the dmcacheio project which is described in the
> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/DmCache.I am newbie to he
> kernel modules..kindly give me the ideas to implement the project
> through device mapper.hoping replies
Someone already started on this:
http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~zhaom/dmcache/index.html
There are plenty of possible improvements:
Parameter tuning (e.g. block size)
Replacing the set associative crap with a fully associative hash table
Sequential IO bypass
Flash-optimized writeback (e.g. log-structured)
Wes Felter
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