[linux-mm-cc] Fwd: [RFC][PATCH 0/6] compcache: Compressed Caching
Nitin Gupta
nitingupta910 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 13:08:16 EDT 2008
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, John McCabe-Dansted <gmatht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Nitin Gupta <nitingupta910 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, I will require performance numbers to justify inclusion of compcache
> > in mainline. We already have separate perf numbers for lzo(compressor) and
> > tlsf(allocator) but none that shows that using compcache is good for
> > perf under memory pressure.
>
> Well, the my testing showing that compcache is more robust with that
> with no swap at all under low memory situations. This would have been
> enough for Ubuntu if not for the feature freeze. In any case,
> benchmarks would be good.
>
>
> > If anyone is willing to take up this task, you can refer this paper:
> > http://ols.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/briglia-Reprint.pdf
> >
> > This paper shows benchmarks of previous implementation of memory compression.
> > It will give good idea on what to measure.
>
> Are the scripts used to do that benchmark available? (I know
> XAutomation is already available in Debian)
>
I am not much aware of testing tools they used. Maybe you can contact
other authors of this paper for details.
- Nitin
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