linux-kernel - Re: compcache as a pre-swap area

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Message-Id: <200908151400.52554.a1426z@gawab.com>
Date:	Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:00:52 +0300
From:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
To:	ngupta@...are.org
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: compcache as a pre-swap area

Al Boldi wrote:
> Nitin Gupta wrote:
> > On 08/14/2009 09:32 AM, Al Boldi wrote:
> > > So once compcache fills up, it will start to age its contents into
> > > normal swap?
> >
> > This is desirable but not yet implemented. For now, if 'backing swap' is
> > used, compcache will forward incompressible pages to the backing swap
> > device. If compcache fills up, kernel will simply send further swap-outs
> > to swap device which comes next in priority.
>
> Ok, this sounds acceptable for now.
>
> The important thing now is to improve performance to a level comparable to
> a system with normal ssd-swap.  Do you have such a comparisson?
>
> Another interresting benchmark would be to use compcache in a maximized
> configuration, ie. on a system w/ 1024KB Ram assign 960KB for compcache and
> leave 64KB for the system, and then see how it performs.  This may easily
> pinpoint any bottlenecks compcache has, if any.

I am wondering, is it possible to run a system in 64KB?

Ok, make that MB instead.


Thanks!

--
Al

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