Hi, Nitin. I am happy to hear you started this work. On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:06:49PM +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote: > On 06/03/2010 09:13 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > >> On 06/03/2010 10:23 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > >>> On 2010-06-02, at 20:46, Nitin Gupta wrote: > >> > >>> I was thinking it would be quite clever to do compression in, say, > >>> 64kB or 128kB chunks in a mapping (to get decent compression) and > >>> then write these compressed chunks directly from the page cache > >>> to disk in btrfs and/or a revived compressed ext4. > >> > >> Batching of pages to get good compression ratio seems doable. > > > > Is there evidence that batching a set of random individual 4K > > pages will have a significantly better compression ratio than > > compressing the pages separately? I certainly understand that > > if the pages are from the same file, compression is likely to > > be better, but pages evicted from the page cache (which is > > the source for all cleancache_puts) are likely to be quite a > > bit more random than that, aren't they? > > > > > Batching of pages from random files may not be so effective but > it would be interesting to collect some data for this. Still, > per-inode batching of pages seems doable and this should help > us get over this problem. 1) Please, consider system memory pressure case. In such case, we have to release compressed cache pages. Or it would be better to discard not-good-compression pages when you compress it. 2) This work is related to page reclaiming. Page reclaiming is to make free memory. But this work might free memory little than old. I admit your concept is good in terms of I/O cost. But we might discard more clean pages than old if you want to do batching of pages for good compression. 3) testcase. As I mentioned, it could be good in terms of I/O cost. But it could change system's behavior due to page consumption of backend. so many page scanning/reclaiming could be happen. It means hot pages can be discarded with this patch. But it's a just guessing. So we need number with testcase we can measure I/O and system responsivness. > > Thanks, > Nitin -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>