[dm-devel] New dm-bufio with shrinker API

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Sep 5 15:07:15 UTC 2011


On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 03:49:14PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> I changed the test suite to reset the peak_allocated parameter before
> each test and record it at the end of each test.  It's very hard to
> say what is right and wrong when talking about cache sizes, since you
> always have to qualify anything by saying 'for this particular load'.
> However, I think bufio could be more aggressive about recycling cache
> entries.  With the old block manager the test suite ran nicely with
> less than 256k, from memory I think I started seeing slow down around
> 128k.  With bufio I'm seeing consistently larger cache sizes for the
> same performance.

IS there any reason you'll need a fixed size?  This is fairly similar in
concept to the XFS buffercache, which does perfectly well by allocation
memory as needed, and letting the shrinker reclaim buffers when under
memory pressure.




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