On venerdì 18 maggio 2018 18:20:51 CEST, David Sterba wrote:
Josef started working on that in 2014 and did not finish it. The patches can be still found in his tree. The problem is in excessive memory consumption when there are many snapshots that need to be tracked during the defragmentation, so there are measures to avoid OOM. There's infrastructure ready for use (shrinkers), there are maybe some problems but fundamentally is should work. I'd like to get the snapshot-aware working again too, we'd need to find a volunteer to resume the work on the patchset.
Yeah I know of Josef's work, but 4 years had passed since then without any news on this front.
What I would really like to know is why nobody resumed his work: is it because it's impossible to implement snapshot-aware degram without excessive ram usage or is it simply because nobody is interested?
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