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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mm/vmalloc: remove block allocation bitmap
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:39:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110420163954.GA7297@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420094647.GB1306@csn.ul.ie>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> It'd be interesting but for the purposes of this patch I think it
> would be more useful to see the results of some benchmark that is vmap
> intensive. Something directory intensive running on XFS should do the
> job just to confirm no regression, right? A profile might indicate
> how often we end up scanning the full list, finding it dirty and
> calling new_vmap_block but even if something odd showed up there,
> it would be a new patch.

Note that the default mkfs.xfs options will not trigger any vmap
calls at runtime.  You'll need a filesystem with a large directory
block size to trigger heavy vmap usage.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14 21:16 [patch] mm/vmalloc: remove block allocation bitmap Johannes Weiner
2011-04-19  9:31 ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-19 23:39   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-04-20  9:46     ` Mel Gorman
2011-04-20 16:39       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-23  2:08       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-04-25 11:08         ` Mel Gorman

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