From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
npiggin@suse.de
Subject: Re: Defrag in shrinkers
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 22:36:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6fmmdak.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1005141244380.9466@router.home> (Christoph Lameter's message of "Fri\, 14 May 2010 12\:46\:52 -0500 \(CDT\)")
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> writes:
> Would it also be possible to add some defragmentation logic when you
> revise the shrinkers? Here is a prototype patch that would allow you to
> determine the other objects sitting in the same page as a given object.
>
> With that I hope that you have enough information to determine if its
> worth to evict the other objects as well to reclaim the slab page.
I like the idea, it would be useful for the hwpoison code too,
when it tries to clean a page.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-14 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 7:24 [PATCH 0/5] Per-superblock shrinkers Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 7:24 ` [PATCH 1/5] inode: Make unused inode LRU per superblock Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 7:24 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: add context argument to shrinker callback Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 7:24 ` [PATCH 3/5] superblock: introduce per-sb cache shrinker infrastructure Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 7:24 ` [PATCH 4/5] superblock: add filesystem shrinker operations Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 7:24 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: make use of new shrinker callout Dave Chinner
2010-05-14 17:46 ` Defrag in shrinkers (was Re: [PATCH 0/5] Per-superblock shrinkers) Christoph Lameter
2010-05-14 20:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-05-15 17:08 ` Defrag in shrinkers Ed Tomlinson
2010-05-17 0:24 ` Dave Chinner
2010-05-15 1:15 ` Defrag in shrinkers (was Re: [PATCH 0/5] Per-superblock shrinkers) Dave Chinner
2010-05-15 1:30 ` [PATCH 0/5] Per-superblock shrinkers Al Viro
2010-05-17 0:19 ` Dave Chinner
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