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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 0/7] Cleancache (was Transcendent Memory): overview
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On 2010-06-02, at 20:46, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 04:32 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>>> From: Minchan Kim [mailto:minchan.kim@gmail.com]
>>
>>>> I am also eagerly awaiting Nitin Gupta's cleancache backend
>>>> and implementation to do in-kernel page cache compression.
>>>
>>> Do Nitin say he will make backend of cleancache for
>>> page cache compression?
>>>
>>> It would be good feature.
>>> I have a interest, too. :)
>>
>> That was Nitin's plan for his GSOC project when we last discussed
>> this. Nitin is on the cc list and can comment if this has
>> changed.
>
> Yes, I have just started work on in-kernel page cache compression
> backend for cleancache :)

Is there a design doc for this implementation? 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.

That would mean that the on-disk compression algorithm needs to match the in-memory algorithm, which implies that the in-memory compression algorithm should be selectable on a per-mapping basis.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Lustre Technical Lead
Oracle Corporation Canada Inc.



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