Re: [PATCH] Making i/dhash_entries cmdline work as it use to.

From: Jose R. Santos
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 08:03:37 EST


On 07/13/04 01:25:10, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Do you worry that you're just expanding the hash table as long as it
> gives benefit on your one, single benchmark? There have to be plenty of
> other workloads that could benefit from an extra 1/16th more memory.
> Not every workload is as dcache heavy as SFS.

This does not change the normal behavior of the kernel. This only
has effect when you use the cmdline options to increase it. I only
use 1/256 of my memory for hashes but there might be someone else
crazier than me that wants more. Of course the 1/16 number could be
change to something a lot smaller but i should give people some room
to play with.

-JRS
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