From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>, Cyp <cyp561@gmail.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
driverdev <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory (v2)
Date: Sat, 08 May 2010 12:27:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE50B71.4020202@vflare.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE504AD.4030807@cs.helsinki.fi>
Oops, missed this part:
On 05/08/2010 11:59 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> I've completely forgotten why we need this xvmalloc thing and I don't
>> recall whether we decided it would be a good thing to have as a generic
>> facility and of course it's all unexplained and undocumented. I won't
>> be looking at it today, for this reason.
>
> We need it because the slab allocator is not a good fit for this special
> purpose driver due to fragmentation. Nitin, you had a nice web page
> showing all the relevant numbers but I can't find it anymore.
>
xvmalloc performance numbers:
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/xvMalloc
http://code.google.com/p/compcache/wiki/xvMallocPerformance
Thanks,
Nitin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-08 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 7:25 [PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory (v2) Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 7:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add flag to identify block swap devices Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 8:03 ` jassi brar
2010-05-07 8:16 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 8:56 ` jassi brar
2010-05-07 9:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-07 9:32 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 7:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add swap slot free callback to block_device_operations Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 9:22 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 9:48 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 10:40 ` Nigel Cunningham
2010-05-07 7:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] ramzswap: Handler for swap slot free callback Nitin Gupta
2010-05-07 7:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] ramzswap: Eliminate stale data from compressed memory (v2) Pekka Enberg
2010-05-07 14:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-07 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-08 4:05 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-05-08 6:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-08 6:54 ` Nitin Gupta
2010-05-08 7:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-08 6:57 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2010-05-08 7:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-05-08 7:32 ` Nitin Gupta
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