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From: "Clayton Weaver" <cgweav@fastmail.fm>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] mm: frontswap (for 3.2 window)
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:37:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320410241.2753.140660994612073@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

"So where I can I buy Network Attached Ram and skip all of
this byzantine VM complication?"

So let me see if I have this right: when the frontswap
back end fills up, the current design would force dumping
newer pages to real on-disk swap (to avoid OOM), possibly
compressed, while keeping older pages in the compressed
ram swap cache? It seems like it should just dump
(blocksize/pagesize) * pagesize multiples of its oldest
compressed pages to disk instead and store and compress
the new pages that are submitted to it, thus preserving
the "least recently used" logic in the frontswap backend.

A backend to frontswap should not be able to fail a put
at all (unless the whole machine or container is OOM and
no physical swap is configured, so the backend contains
no pages and has no space to allocate from).

-- 

Clayton Weaver
cgweav at fastmail dot fm


             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04 12:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04 12:37 Clayton Weaver [this message]
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2011-11-05 17:08 Clayton Weaver
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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     [not found]                     ` <b8a0ca71-a31b-488a-9a92-2502d4a6e9bf@default20111102013122.GA18879@redhat.com>
2011-10-28  7:30           ` Cyclonus J
2011-10-28 14:26             ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-28 15:21               ` Dan Magenheimer
     [not found]                 ` <CAOJsxLEE-qf9me1SAZLFiEVhHVnDh7BDrSx1+abe9R4mfkhD=g@mail.gmail.com20111028163053.GC1319@redhat.com>
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
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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