Re: [PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation

2011-04-15 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Dan Magenheimer dan.magenhei...@oracle.com writes: [PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache effectiveness for many workloads in many environments

RE: [PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation

2011-04-15 Thread Dan Magenheimer
Hi Hirofumi-san -- Another question: why can't this enable/disable per sb, e.g. via mount options? (I have the interest the cache stuff like this by SSD on physical systems like dragonfly's swapcache.) This would be useful and could be added later if individual filesystems choose to add the

Re: [PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation

2011-04-15 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Dan Magenheimer dan.magenhei...@oracle.com writes: Well, anyway, I guess force enabling this for mostly unused sb can just add cache-write overhead and call for unpleasing reclaim to backend (because of limited space of backend) like updatedb. If the sb is mostly unused, there should be few

[PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation

2011-04-14 Thread Dan Magenheimer
[PATCH V8 1/8] mm/fs: cleancache documentation This patchset introduces cleancache, an optional new feature exposed by the VFS layer that potentially dramatically increases page cache effectiveness for many workloads in many environments at a negligible cost. It does this by providing