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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm-bufio cache patches
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:07:36 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 04:17:59PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > I created dm-bufio patchset that keep some amount of cache indefinitely, 
> > regardless of the timeout (the default is to keep 1/500 of total memory 
> > indefinitely).

I'm running something similar here.  I just put in a hard coded
default rather than basing it on the amount of memory present.  I'm
not sure which I prefer.

I've also switched over to using a rbtree instead of that huge hash
table which consumes 8m.

I'll post clean patches in a bit.

- Joe