On 06/12/2012 02:58 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:46:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 06/11/2012 10:56 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > >> > btw, so far we've been poking on half of the code here. >> > >> > What about frontswap over kvm-tmem? are there any specific tests you'd >> > like to see there? >> >> hmm. On one hand, no one swaps these days so there aren't any good >> benchmarks for it. On the other hand, with swapping, at least we're >> guaranteed the page will be read in the future (unlike cache, where it's >> quite possible it won't be). I don't know. >> >> > Swapped page can be discarded without reading too. Right. The effects of frontswap can be achieved by swapping to a block device that sets cache=writeback, more or less (esp. with trim support, you can discard pages that you won't be needing again before they hit disk). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
