From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@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>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 06:30:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86F488BC-2F99-4397-9467-A52AE1511FE0@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2baa4c1a-1fe0-4395-a428-f30703e8c435@default>
On Nov 2, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> By "infinite" I am glibly describing any environment where the
> data centre administrator positively knows the maximum working
> set of every machine (physical or virtual) and can ensure in
> advance that the physical RAM always exceeds that maximum
> working set. As you say, these machines need not be configured
> with a swap device as they, by definition, will never swap.
>
> The point of tmem is to use RAM more efficiently by taking
> advantage of all the unused RAM when the current working set
> size is less than the maximum working set size. This is very
> common in many data centers too, especially virtualized.
That doesn't match with my experience, especially with "cloud" deployments, where in order to make the business plans work, the machines tend to be memory constrained, since you want to pack a large number of jobs/VM's onto a single machine, and high density memory is expensive and/or you are DIMM slot constrained. Of course, if you are running multiple Java runtimes in each guest OS (i.e., an J2EE server, and another Java VM for management, and yet another Java VM for the backup manager, etc. --- really, I've seen cloud architectures that work that way), things get worst even faster….
-- Ted
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2011-10-27 18:52 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
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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
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 [this message]
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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