From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
rohitseth@google.com, "Dave Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
"Kirill Korotaev" <dev@sw.ru>,
vatsa@in.ibm.com, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
mingo@elte.hu, sam@vilain.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dev@openvz.org, efault@gmx.de, balbir@in.ibm.com,
sekharan@us.ibm.com, nagar@watson.ibm.com, pj@sgi.com,
"Andrey Savochkin" <saw@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: memory resource accounting (was Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:06:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608090806.04615.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aec7e5c30608082300t3b903e89rff302dc25339c720@mail.gmail.com>
> I've been thinking a bit about replacing the mapping and index members
> in struct page with a single pointer that point into a cluster data
> type. The cluster data type is aligned to a power of two and contains
> a header that is shared between all pages within the cluster. The
> header contains a base index and mapping. The rest of the cluster is
> an array of pfn:s that point back to the actual page.
Nice. While the code would probably do more references i bet
it would be faster overall because it would have less cache footprint.
But doing it would be a *lot* of editing work all over file systems/VM/etc.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-04 5:07 [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 5:09 ` [ RFC, PATCH 1/5 ] CPU controller - base changes Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 7:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 11:18 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 14:34 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 14:50 ` Balbir Singh
2006-08-04 14:51 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 5:10 ` [ RFC, PATCH 2/5 ] CPU controller - Define group operations Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 23:10 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-08-04 5:11 ` [ RFC, PATCH 3/5 ] CPU controller - deal with movement of tasks Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 5:12 ` [ RFC, PATCH 4/5 ] CPU controller - deal with dont care groups Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 5:13 ` [ RFC, PATCH 5/5 ] CPU controller - interface with cpusets Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 5:36 ` [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 9:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 11:41 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 14:51 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 15:31 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 16:03 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 17:02 ` [ProbableSpam] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-04 18:27 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-04 19:11 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-04 19:24 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-07 7:19 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-07 17:14 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-08 7:17 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-08 17:16 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-04 17:50 ` Martin Bligh
2006-08-07 7:25 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-07 14:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-08-07 16:33 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-07 18:31 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-07 18:43 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-07 19:00 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-07 19:46 ` Martin Bligh
2006-08-08 14:19 ` memory resource accounting (was Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller) Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 14:57 ` Dave Hansen
2006-08-08 15:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-09 13:43 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-08 17:08 ` Martin Bligh
2006-08-09 1:54 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-08 17:34 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-09 4:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-09 6:00 ` Magnus Damm
2006-08-09 6:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-09 6:56 ` Andrey Savochkin
2006-08-08 7:19 ` [RFC, PATCH 0/5] Going forward with Resource Management - A cpu controller Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 16:16 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 16:49 ` [ProbableSpam] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-04 17:03 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-08-04 18:17 ` Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-07 7:23 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 14:57 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 5:58 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-04 6:02 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-04 6:16 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-04 6:20 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-08-04 6:31 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-04 6:37 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-08-04 6:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 6:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 7:10 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-08-04 7:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 19:10 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-04 6:56 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 11:16 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2006-08-04 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-04 14:20 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-04 14:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-04 15:29 ` [ProbableSpam] " Shailabh Nagar
2006-08-07 7:29 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-07 9:30 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-07 15:58 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-08-07 16:10 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-08-07 17:15 ` Paul Jackson
2006-08-07 18:19 ` Rohit Seth
2006-08-05 3:30 ` Nick Piggin
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