[lc-devel] Next items to be done

[Rodrigo S. de C. <rc...@im...>]

Hi,

There are some things that are on the top of my todo list and that I
want to do them asap. Don't forge that a (complete?) todo list is
always at: http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/todo/.

Adaptivity
----------

I have to make these data structures adaptable along with the
compressed cache. Once these data structures are done, we will be able
to safely change compressed cache size manually and start testing
differente compressed cache sizes for different workloads. And
automatic adaptivity won't be a matter of changing very much the
current code (even though devise which and how to get the correct
parameters in the VM will be a hard work :-).

- Adaptable Hash Table

- Adaptable Vswap Address

- Option to disable compressed cache on-the-fly (something like "echo
0 > /proc/sys/vm/comp_cache/size")

SMP
---

To add SMP support, major surgeries in the code and changes in data
structures will be needed. I think that may take a while to be ready
and stable. It seems User Mode Linux will help us a lot since SMP
support has been heavily developed by UML team.

rmap port
---------

I already make use of some ideas (and some functions :-) present in
Rik van Riel's rmap VM and I think it will be great to check
Compressed Cache performance impact in this new VM.

Statistics
----------

It's time to do some tests and publish statistics on our web page,
trying different workloads and compressed cache sizes. I'd like to
have some help here, if possible.

Regards,
-- 
Rodrigo S. de Castro <rc...@im...>