On 06/22/2010 08:13 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:19:39PM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote: >> [PATCH V3 3/8] Cleancache: core ops functions and configuration >> >> Cleancache core ops functions and configuration > > NACK for code that just adds random hooks all over VFS and even > individual FS code, does an EXPORT_SYMBOL but doesn't actually introduce > any users. > > And even if it had users these would have to be damn good ones given how > invasive it is. So what exactly is this going to help us? Given your > affiliation probably something Xen related, so some real use case would > be interesting as well instead of just making Xen suck slightly less. > > One use case of cleancache is to provide transparent page cache compression support. Currently, I'm working 'zcache' which provides hooks for cleancache callbacks to implement the same. Page cache compression is expected is benefit use cases where memory is the bottleneck. In particular, I'm interested in KVM virtualization case where this can allow running more VMs per host for given amount of RAM. The zcache code is under active development and a working snapshot can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/compcache/source/browse/#hg/sub-projects/zcache (sorry for lack of code comments in its current state) Thanks, Nitin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
