On 07/25/2016 08:47 PM, George Amvrosiadis wrote: > 21 files changed, 2424 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) I like the idea, but yikes, that's a lot of code. Have you considered using or augmenting the kernel's existing tracing mechanisms? Have you considered using something like netlink for transporting the data out of the kernel? The PageDirty() hooks look simple but turn out to be horribly deep. Where we used to have a plain old bit set, we now have new locks, potentially long periods of irq disabling, and loops over all the tasks doing duet, even path lookup! Given a big system, I would imagine these locks slowing down SetPageDirty() and things like write() pretty severely. Have you done an assessment of the performance impact of this change? I can't imagine this being used in any kind of performance or scalability-sensitive environment. The current tracing code has a model where the trace producers put data in *one* place, then all the mulitple consumers pull it out of that place. Duet seems to have the model that the producer puts the data in multiple places and consumers consume it from their own private copies. That seems a bit backwards and puts cost directly in to hot code paths. Even a single task watching a single file on the system makes everyone go in and pay some of this cost for every SetPageDirty(). Let's say we had a big system with virtually everything sitting in the page cache. Does duet have a way to find things currently _in_ the cache, or only when things move in/out of it? Tasks seem to have a fixed 'struct path' ->regpath at duet_task_init() time. The code goes page->mapping->inode->i_dentry and then tries to compare that with the originally recorded path. Does this even work in the face of things like bind mounts, mounts that change after duet_task_init(), or mounting a fs with a different superblock underneath a watched path? It seems awfully fragile. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>