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On Iau, 2004-09-09 at 21:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > I did a patch a while back which switches the swapspace allocator over to > perform program-virtual-address clustering, but it didn't help much in > brief testing and I haven't got back onto it.> > And contrary to my above assertion, I don't think it'll help latency ;) I would still expect the only thing to materially improve swap latency to be a log structured swap, possibly with a cleaner which tidies together pages that are referenced together. You also want contiguous runs of at least 64K and probaly a lot more on bigger memory systems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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