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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:25:28 -0800
From: Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic resizing dentry hash using RCU
On Feb 23, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> The dentry hash uses up 8MB for 1 million entries on my 4GB system
> is one
> of the biggest wasters of memory for me. Because I rarely have more
> than one or
> two hundred thousand dentries. And that's with several kernel trees
> worth of
> entries. Most desktop and probably even many types of servers will
> only use a
> fraction of that.
>
> So I introduce a new method for resizing hash tables with RCU, and
> apply
> that to the dentry hash.
Can you compare what you've done to the design that Paul and David
talked about a year ago?
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/30/74
I'd love to see a generic implementation of RCU hashing that
subsystems can then take advantage of. It's long been on the fun
side of my todo list. The side I never get to :/.
- z
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