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From: Wes Felter <wesley@felter.org>
To: dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: dmcache project
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:47:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hb0155$33r$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bbcfcd40910101336t4cf3824bsf6fb58e12c350953@mail.gmail.com>

ganesh kumar wrote:
> hello,
>       I am working on the dmcacheio project which is described in the
> http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/DmCache.I am newbie to he
> kernel modules..kindly give me the ideas to implement the project
> through device mapper.hoping replies

Someone already started on this: 
http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~zhaom/dmcache/index.html

There are plenty of possible improvements:
Parameter tuning (e.g. block size)
Replacing the set associative crap with a fully associative hash table
Sequential IO bypass
Flash-optimized writeback (e.g. log-structured)

Wes Felter

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-10 20:36 dmcache project ganesh kumar
2009-10-10 21:02 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-10-12 19:47 ` Wes Felter [this message]

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