linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

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Message-ID: <20151120173329.GA20909@mail.hallyn.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2015 11:33:29 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@...el.com>
Cc:	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	"linux-raid@...r.kernel.org" <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:19:10PM +0200, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Seth Forshee
> > And for the second:
> >
> >  stress-ng --class filesystem --seq 0 -v -t 60
> >
> > There really wasn't anything interesting in the lklfuse output for the
> > first run, but for the second run I pasted the output here:
> > http://paste.ubuntu.com/13346993/
> 
> lklfuse allocates a fixed 100MB to the kernel and this is probably not
> enough. For the short term I can add a parameter to lklfuse that
> allows the user to specify the amount of memory to allocate to lkl. A
> better fix would probably be to dynamically adjust the memory size of
> lkl. I am thinking of using the ballon virtio driver or the memory
> hotplug infrastructure. Any other suggestions?

Hi Octavian,

Like Seth said this was very nice to install and run.  But I think I'm
doing something wrong.  I cloned the lkl/linux git tree into a 9G ext4
loopback file, both one mounted with lkl and one mounted as loopback.
The results were worse than I expected - loopback was 0m10.078s for
clone and 0m0.877s for rm -rf;  lkl was 5m5.625s for clone and 0m44.332s
for rm -rf.  I assume this has to do with the 100MB buffer and subsequent
thrashing?  How should I tune this to  make it perform better?

No crashes from this, though.

thanks,
-serge
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