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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org,
	jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kurt.hackel@oracle.com,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	dave.mccracken@oracle.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	sunil.mushran@oracle.com, Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] (Take 2): transcendent memory ("tmem") for Linux
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:00:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6C6F96.2050207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5BA451.5070604@codemonkey.ws>

On 07/14/2009 12:17 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:38:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   I'll definitely grant that caching with writethough adds more caching,
>> but it does need trim support before it is similar to tmem.
>
> I think trim is somewhat orthogonal but even if you do need it, the 
> nice thing about implementing ATA trim support verses a 
> paravirtualization is that it works with a wide variety of guests.
>
> From the perspective of the VMM, it seems like a good thing.

trim is also lovely in that images will no longer grow monotonously even 
though guest disk usage is constant or is even reduced.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org,
	jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	tmem-devel@oss.oracle.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kurt.hackel@oracle.com,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	dave.mccracken@oracle.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	sunil.mushran@oracle.com, Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] (Take 2): transcendent memory ("tmem") for Linux
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:00:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6C6F96.2050207@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A5BA451.5070604@codemonkey.ws>

On 07/14/2009 12:17 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 03:38:45PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>   I'll definitely grant that caching with writethough adds more caching,
>> but it does need trim support before it is similar to tmem.
>
> I think trim is somewhat orthogonal but even if you do need it, the 
> nice thing about implementing ATA trim support verses a 
> paravirtualization is that it works with a wide variety of guests.
>
> From the perspective of the VMM, it seems like a good thing.

trim is also lovely in that images will no longer grow monotonously even 
though guest disk usage is constant or is even reduced.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-26 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07 16:17 [RFC PATCH 0/4] (Take 2): transcendent memory ("tmem") for Linux Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-07 16:17 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-07 17:28 ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-07 17:28   ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-07 19:53   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-07 19:53     ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-08 22:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 22:56   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 23:31   ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-08 23:31     ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-08 23:57     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 23:57       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09  0:17       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-07-09  0:17         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-07-09  0:27         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09  0:27           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09  1:20   ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09  1:20     ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09 21:09     ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 21:09       ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 21:27       ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09 21:27         ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09 21:48         ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 21:48           ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 21:41       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09 21:41         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09 22:34         ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 22:34           ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-09 22:45           ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09 22:45             ` Rik van Riel
2009-07-09 23:33           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09 23:33             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-09 23:33             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-10 15:23             ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-10 15:23               ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12  9:20               ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12  9:20                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 16:28                 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 16:28                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 17:27                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 17:27                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 20:59                     ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 20:59                       ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 13:28               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12 13:28                 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12 16:20                 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 16:20                   ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 17:16                   ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 17:16                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 19:34                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12 19:34                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 20:17                       ` Chris Mason
2009-07-13 20:17                         ` Chris Mason
2009-07-13 20:38                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 20:38                           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 21:01                           ` Chris Mason
2009-07-13 21:01                             ` Chris Mason
2009-07-13 21:17                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 21:17                             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 21:17                               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-26 15:00                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-26 15:00                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-13 20:38                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-13 20:38                         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12 20:39                     ` [Xen-devel] " Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 20:39                       ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 20:43                       ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 20:43                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 21:08                         ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-12 21:08                           ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-07-13 11:33                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-13 11:33                             ` Avi Kivity

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