From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:15:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15917317.H6lYS7chMM@grover> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201529.1320618774@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Sunday 06 November 2011 17:32:54 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said:
> > Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to
> > Dan> add RAM to your systems.
> >
> > So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM?
>
> You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :)
>
> There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of
> supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a
> forklift upgrade to a new machine.
I've got three boxes with this problem here. Hense my support for frontswap/cleancache.
Ed
> > if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more
> > memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more
> > performance out of this expensive hardware.
>
> It's not always a large system....
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From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:15:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15917317.H6lYS7chMM@grover> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201529.1320618774@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Sunday 06 November 2011 17:32:54 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:52:28 EDT, John Stoffel said:
> > Dan> "WHY" this is such a good idea is the same as WHY it is useful to
> > Dan> add RAM to your systems.
> >
> > So why would I use this instead of increasing the physical RAM?
>
> You're welcome to buy me a new laptop that has a third DIMM slot. :)
>
> There's a lot of people running hardware that already has the max amount of
> supported RAM, and who for budget or legacy-support reasons can't easily do a
> forklift upgrade to a new machine.
I've got three boxes with this problem here. Hense my support for frontswap/cleancache.
Ed
> > if I've got a large system which cannot physically use any more
> > memory, then it might be worth my while to use TMEM to get more
> > performance out of this expensive hardware.
>
> It's not always a large system....
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2011-10-27 18:52 [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 18:52 ` Dan Magenheimer
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110271318220.7639@chino.kir.corp.google.com20111027211157.GA1199@infradead.org>
2011-10-27 19:30 ` Kurt Hackel
2011-10-27 19:30 ` Kurt Hackel
2011-10-27 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-27 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-27 21:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 21:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 21:49 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:49 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 22:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 22:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 7:12 ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-28 7:12 ` Sasha Levin
[not found] ` <CAOzbF4fnD=CGR-nizZoBxmFSuAjFC3uAHf3wDj5RLneJvJhrOQ@mail.gmail.comCAOJsxLGOTw7rtFnqeHvzFxifA0QgPVDHZzrEo=-uB2Gkrvp=JQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <552d2067-474d-4aef-a9a4-89e5fd8ef84f@default20111031181651.GF3466@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <60592afd-97aa-4eaf-b86b-f6695d31c7f1@default20111031223717.GI3466@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <1b2e4f74-7058-4712-85a7-84198723e3ee@default20111101012017.GJ3466@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <6a9db6d9-6f13-4855-b026-ba668c29ddfa@default20111101180702.GL3466@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <b8a0ca71-a31b-488a-9a92-2502d4a6e9bf@default20111102013122.GA18879@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 7:30 ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-28 7:30 ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-28 14:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 14:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 15:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 15:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
[not found] ` <CAOJsxLEE-qf9me1SAZLFiEVhHVnDh7BDrSx1+abe9R4mfkhD=g@mail.gmail.com20111028163053.GC1319@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 15:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 15:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 16:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-28 16:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-28 17:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:07 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 17:07 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 18:28 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-28 18:28 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-28 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 20:52 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-28 20:52 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-30 19:18 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 19:18 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 20:06 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-30 20:06 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-30 21:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 21:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 20:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-06 22:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-11-08 12:15 ` Ed Tomlinson [this message]
2011-11-08 12:15 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-10-31 8:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-10-31 15:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 15:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 10:13 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 10:13 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:10 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:10 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-01 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-01 21:32 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 21:32 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 7:44 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 7:44 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 19:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 19:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 18:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-30 21:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-30 21:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-30 23:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 23:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 18:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 21:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 21:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:37 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:37 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 16:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:20 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 17:20 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 18:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 20:58 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 20:58 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 23:36 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 23:36 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 1:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 1:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 16:41 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 16:41 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 18:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 21:00 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 21:00 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 1:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 19:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 19:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 0:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-03 0:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-03 22:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 22:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:14 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 21:14 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-15 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-15 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-15 17:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-11-15 17:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-11-16 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-16 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-01 10:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 10:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 8:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 8:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 10:30 ` Theodore Tso
2011-11-03 10:30 ` Theodore Tso
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 15:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 15:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 16:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 16:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 20:27 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:27 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:44 ` Avi Miller
2011-10-27 21:44 ` Avi Miller
2011-10-27 22:33 ` Brian King
2011-10-27 22:33 ` Brian King
2011-10-28 5:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-10-28 5:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-10-29 13:43 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-29 13:43 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-31 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-31 16:38 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 16:38 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-01 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-01 15:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 15:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-01 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-01 22:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 22:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 21:03 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:03 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-02 1:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-02 15:12 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 15:12 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-04 4:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-04 4:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-03 16:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-03 16:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-04 0:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-04 0:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-04 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-04 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
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