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From: Chirag Chauhan <chirag.holmes@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Partition linux page cache for each VM
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:01:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPBfXi1Ms6b_ZwDGyjuWK+gL=n8PX0u0Nc4ALtkYKyzuSuwX3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190425172750.GD11105@kroah.com>


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On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:57 PM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 07:06:54PM +0530, Chirag Chauhan wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I need to modify pagecache such that each VM gets their own LRU list and
> > eviction is done from that list.
>
> Odd, please step back, why have you determined that this is something
> that you have to do?  Were you told to do this by someone?  Is this a
> homework assignment?  What problems are you thinking that this might
> help with?

I have selected this as a course project for a course on virtualization.
Doing this will reduce the performance interference between virtual
machines.


> And please define "VM" here, what exactly is that?  A KVM image?  Xen?
> Hyper-V?  Something else?
>
Yes, a KVM image.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Thank you.

>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-25 13:36 Partition linux page cache for each VM Chirag Chauhan
2019-04-25 17:27 ` Greg KH
2019-04-25 21:31   ` Chirag Chauhan [this message]
2019-04-26  2:08     ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-04-26  6:23     ` Greg KH

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