From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
gregkh@suse.de, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
dan.magenheimer@oracle.com, cascardo@holoscopio.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] staging: zcache: xcfmalloc support
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:41:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6ACE5B.9040401@vflare.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110909203447.GB19127@kroah.com>
On 09/09/2011 04:34 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:09:04AM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
>> Changelog:
>> v2: fix bug in find_remove_block()
>> fix whitespace warning at EOF
>>
>> This patchset introduces a new memory allocator for persistent
>> pages for zcache. The current allocator is xvmalloc. xvmalloc
>> has two notable limitations:
>> * High (up to 50%) external fragmentation on allocation sets > PAGE_SIZE/2
>> * No compaction support which reduces page reclaimation
>
> I need some acks from other zcache developers before I can accept this.
>
First, thanks for this new allocator; xvmalloc badly needed a replacement :)
I went through xcfmalloc in detail and would be posting detailed
comments tomorrow. In general, it seems to be quite similar to the
"chunk based" allocator used in initial implementation of "compcache" --
please see section 2.3.1 in this paper:
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/archives/OLS/Reprints-2007/briglia-Reprint.pdf
I'm really looking forward to a slab based allocator as I mentioned in
the initial mail:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/65467
With the current design xcfmalloc suffers from issues similar to the
allocator described in the paper:
- High metadata overhead
- Difficult implementation of compaction
- Need for extra memcpy()s etc.
With slab based approach, we can almost eliminate any metadata overhead,
remove any free chunk merging logic, simplify compaction and so on.
Thanks,
Nitin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-10 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-07 14:09 Seth Jennings
2011-09-07 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] staging: zcache: xcfmalloc memory allocator for zcache Seth Jennings
2011-09-07 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] staging: zcache: replace xvmalloc with xcfmalloc Seth Jennings
2011-09-07 14:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: zcache: add zv_page_count and zv_desc_count Seth Jennings
2011-09-09 20:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] staging: zcache: xcfmalloc support Greg KH
2011-09-10 2:41 ` Nitin Gupta [this message]
2011-09-12 14:35 ` Seth Jennings
2011-09-13 1:55 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-13 15:58 ` Seth Jennings
2011-09-13 21:18 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-15 16:31 ` Seth Jennings
2011-09-15 17:29 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-15 19:24 ` Seth Jennings
2011-09-15 20:07 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-10-03 15:59 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-03 17:54 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-10-03 18:22 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-05 1:03 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-15 22:17 ` Dave Hansen
2011-09-15 22:27 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-09-16 17:36 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-16 17:52 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-16 17:46 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-16 18:33 ` Seth Jennings
2011-11-01 17:30 ` Dave Hansen
2011-11-01 18:35 ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-11-02 2:42 ` Nitin Gupta
2011-09-29 17:47 ` Seth Jennings
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