2009/2/7 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>: > On Sat, February 7, 2009 5:08 am, Igor Podlesny wrote: >> Hi! >> >> $(Subj). :-) >> >> P. S. Also, I deem there lots of structures in kernel that could >> benefit >> from using HugePages. But this probably a q-n for another kernel list. > > I have only a vague idea what HugePages are and it is not at all clear to > me why you would want to use them for the MD cache. I assume you are > HugePages requires less TBL entries so they better fit for large buffers, as far as I understand. http://unixfoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/hugepages.html http://linux-mm.org/HugePagesArticles > talking about MD/RAID456 as that is the only place we use a cache. > Yeah, "stripe_cache_size" setting. > > Maybe if you could explain what you are thinking.... > Yeah, hope this would suffice. -- End of message. Next message? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
