On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 06:21:39PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 09:15 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > Most of the issues you mention are null if you move the stats
> > > maintenance burden to userspace.
> > >
> > > The performance impact is also minimized since the hooks
> > > (read: overhead) can be loaded on-demand as needed.
> > >
> >
> > The overhead is - going through each mapping/inode in the system
> > and dumping out "nrpages" - to get per-file statistics. This is
> > going to be expensive, need locking and there is no single list
> > we can traverse to get it. I am not sure how to do this.
Can't you add hooks to add_to_page_cache/remove_from_page_cache
to record pagecache activity ?
> and worse... you're going to need memory to store the results, either in
> kernel or in userspace, and you don't know how much until you're done.
> That memory is going to need to be allocated, which in turn changes the
> vm state..
Indeed - need to pre-allocate some sensible amount of memory to store the
results (relayfs does it for your).
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