From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chirag Chauhan <chirag.holmes@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Partition linux page cache for each VM
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:23:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190426062352.GA5920@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPBfXi1Ms6b_ZwDGyjuWK+gL=n8PX0u0Nc4ALtkYKyzuSuwX3A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 03:01:52AM +0530, Chirag Chauhan wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:57 PM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 07:06:54PM +0530, Chirag Chauhan wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I need to modify pagecache such that each VM gets their own LRU list and
> > > eviction is done from that list.
> >
> > Odd, please step back, why have you determined that this is something
> > that you have to do? Were you told to do this by someone? Is this a
> > homework assignment? What problems are you thinking that this might
> > help with?
>
> I have selected this as a course project for a course on virtualization.
Great! Do we get credit for this as well? Be sure to let your
professor know that random people on the internet contributed to your
grade :)
Good luck, you are on your own here, sorry.
> Doing this will reduce the performance interference between virtual
> machines.
I really doubt it will, but hey, that's what research is for! :)
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-25 13:36 Partition linux page cache for each VM Chirag Chauhan
2019-04-25 17:27 ` Greg KH
2019-04-25 21:31 ` Chirag Chauhan
2019-04-26 2:08 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-04-26 6:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
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