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SubjectRe: [PATCH 02/16] DRBD: lru_cache
Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net> wrote:
>> There are a couple trivial tunables you can apply to the model I
>> provided to dramatically change the effect of memory pressure on the
>> LRU:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>
> Ooh, I forgot to mention another biggie: There's a way to allocate a
> reserve pool of memory (I don't remember the exact API, sorry), which
> can be attached to a specific kmem_cache to be used by processes
> attempting writeout. This would allow you to allocate more in-use
> elements to make forward progress, even if all of your existing
> elements are already in-use.

Lars,

is using a mempool for allocation, in combination with a
shrinker callback for freeing older entries an option for
DRBD?

It looks like that could get rid of a fair amount of custom infrastructure.

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