Hi.
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 00:19 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > > > Switch from bitmaps to using extents to record what swap is allocated;
> > > > > they make more efficient use of memory, particularly where the allocated
> > > > > storage is small and the swap space is large.
> > > >
> > > > As I said before, I like the overall idea, but I have a bunch of
> > > > comments.
> > >
> > > Okay, if Rafael likes it... lets take a look.
> > >
> > > First... what is the _worst case_ overhead? AFAICT extents are very
> > > good at the best case, but tend to suck for the worst case...?
> >
> > That's right. In using this, we're relying on the fact that the swap
> > allocator tries to act sensibly. I've only seen worse case performance
> > when a user had two swap devices with the same priority (striped), but
> > that was a bug. :)
>
> Ok, but if the allocator somehow manages to stripe between two swap
> devices, what happens?
>
> IIRC original code was something like .1% overhead (8bytes per 4K, or
> something?), bitmaps should be even better. If it is 1% in worst case,
> that's probably okay, but it would be bad if it had overhead bigger
> than 10times original code (worst case).
With the code I have in Suspend2 (which is what I'm working towards),
the value includes the swap_type, so there's no overlap. Assuming the
swap allocator does it's normal thing and swap allocated is contiguous,
you'll probably end up with two extents: one containing the swap
allocated on the first device, and the other containing the swap
allocated on the second device. So (with the current version), striping
would use 6 * sizeof(unsigned long) instead of 3 * sizeof(unsigned
long).
Regards,
Nigel
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