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From: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Will Huck <will.huckk@gmail.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: page eviction from the buddy cache
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:18:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51874517-8D82-433E-9E10-13167C736D5F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51730619.3030204@fastmail.fm>

Bernd,

I fact marking REQ_META will help with io scheduler().
I and Andrew will discuss it's some time ago, but don't expect a too much performance improvements
anyway - i will pickup patch from Intel jira and ask performance engineer to evaluate it. 

bw. My problem is in memory caching. 
I may rewrite a buddy cache to avoid using a page cache at all as these pages but LRU aging will lost.

On Apr 21, 2013, at 00:18, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> Alex, Andrew,
> 
> did you notice the patch Ted just sent?
> ("ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META")
> 
> I would like to see a way to mark pages read in with REQ_META to be kept
> in cache preferred over other pages. I guess that would solve LU-15
> (https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-15) and also the direntry-block
> issue I tried to solve about 2 years ago
> (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/101200/). But using REQ_META to tag
> pages would probably also solve the same issue for other file systems.
> Is there anything already in the mm layer that could be used for that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernd
> 

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-22 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <51504A40.6020604@ya.ru>
     [not found] ` <20130327150743.GC14900@thunk.org>
2013-03-27 19:24   ` Hugh Dickins
2013-03-28  5:34     ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-04  1:24       ` Will Huck
2013-04-04  4:51         ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-20 21:18           ` Bernd Schubert
2013-04-20 23:57             ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-22 12:14               ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-23 12:02               ` Bernd Schubert
2013-04-23 12:27                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-23 19:57                   ` Hugh Dickins
2013-04-23 22:00                     ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-23 22:31                       ` Hugh Dickins
2013-04-24 14:26                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-04-24 21:41                         ` Andrew Morton
2013-04-25  8:18                           ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-25 14:30                         ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-25 18:37                           ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-25 22:40                             ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-26  6:03                               ` Alexey Lyahkov
2013-04-22 12:18             ` Alexey Lyahkov [this message]

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