From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Cyclonus J <cyclonusj@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
ngupta@vflare.org, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
JBeulich@novell.com, Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:34:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111031183423.GG3466@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b86860d2-3aac-4edd-b460-bd95cb1103e6@default>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07:12AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> First, there are several companies and several unaffiliated kernel
> developers contributing here, building on top of frontswap. I happen
> to be spearheading it, and my company is backing me up. (It
> might be more appropriate to note that much of the resistance comes
> from people of your company... but please let's keep our open-source
> developer hats on and have a technical discussion rather than one
> which pleases our respective corporate overlords.)
Fair enough to want an independent review but I'd be interesting to
also know how many of the several companies and unaffiliated kernel
developers are contributing to it that aren't using tmem with
Xen. Obviously bounce buffers 4k vmexits are still faster than
Xen-paravirt-I/O on disk platter...
Note, Hugh is working for another company... and they're using cgroups
not KVM nor Xen, so I suggests he'd be a fair reviewer from a non-virt
standpoint, if he hopefully has the time to weight in.
However keep in mind if we'd see something that can allow KVM to run
even faster, we'd be quite silly in not taking advantage of it too, to
beat our own SPECvirt record. The whole design idea of KVM (unlike
Xen) is to reuse the kernel improvements as much as possible so when
the guest runs faster the hypervisor also runs faster with the exact
same code. Problem a vmexit doing a bounce buffer every 4k doesn't mix
well into SPECvirt in my view and that probably is what has kept us
from making any attempt to use tmem API anywhere.
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2011-10-27 18:52 [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window) Dan Magenheimer
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2011-10-27 19:30 ` Kurt Hackel
2011-10-27 20:18 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-27 21:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 21:49 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-27 22:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 7:12 ` Sasha Levin
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2011-10-28 7:30 ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-28 14:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 15:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
[not found] ` <CAOJsxLEE-qf9me1SAZLFiEVhHVnDh7BDrSx1+abe9R4mfkhD=g@mail.gmail.com20111028163053.GC1319@redhat.com>
2011-10-28 15:36 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 16:30 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-28 17:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:07 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 18:28 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-28 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 20:52 ` John Stoffel
2011-10-30 19:18 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-30 20:06 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-30 21:50 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 19:45 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 20:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-06 22:32 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-11-08 12:15 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-10-31 15:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 10:13 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:10 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-01 21:32 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 7:44 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 19:39 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-30 21:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-10-30 23:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2011-10-31 21:45 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:37 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-28 16:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 17:20 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 18:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 20:58 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-31 22:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-10-31 23:36 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 1:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 16:41 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 18:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-01 21:00 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 19:06 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 0:32 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-03 22:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:14 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-15 16:29 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-15 17:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-11-16 14:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-01 10:16 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-01 18:21 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 8:14 ` James Bottomley
2011-11-02 20:08 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-03 10:30 ` Theodore Tso
2011-11-03 14:59 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 15:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 16:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-11-02 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-02 20:27 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 20:19 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-27 21:44 ` Avi Miller
2011-10-27 22:33 ` Brian King
2011-10-28 5:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-10-29 13:43 ` Ed Tomlinson
2011-10-31 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-31 16:38 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-01 15:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-01 21:43 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-01 22:25 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 21:03 ` Rik van Riel
2011-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 1:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-02 15:12 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-04 4:19 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-03 16:49 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-04 0:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-04 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
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