From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dbench on tmpfs OOM's
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 09:57:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sn092gm9.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209170726050.19523-100000@localhost.localdomain> (Hugh Dickins's message of "Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:01:20 +0100 (BST)")
Hi Hugh,
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> What I never did was try GFP_HIGHUSER and kmap on the index pages:
> I think I decided back then that it wasn't likely to be needed
> (sparsely filled file indexes are a rarer case than sparsely filled
> pagetables, once the stupidity is fixed; and small files don't use
> index pages at all). But Bill's testing may well prove me wrong.
I think that this would be a good improvement. Big database and
application servers would definitely benefit from it, desktops could
easier use tmpfs as temporary file systems.
I never dared to do it with my limited time since I feared deadlock
situations.
Also I ended up that I would try to go one step further: Make the
index pages swappable, i.e. make the directory nodes normal tmpfs
files. This would even make the accounting right.
Greetings
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-17 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-17 4:43 William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-17 4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 5:01 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-17 5:14 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 5:18 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-09-17 5:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-17 5:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 6:43 ` Christoph Rohland
2002-09-17 7:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-09-17 7:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-17 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 11:38 ` 35-mm1 triggers watchdog Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-17 20:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-17 7:57 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2002-12-10 5:28 ` dbench on tmpfs OOM's William Lee Irwin III
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