Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:35:28 +0100 | From | Mattia Dongili <> | Subject | Re: swap prefetching merge plans |
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Hello,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:04:36PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:53 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A look at the -mm lineup for 2.6.17: > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-fix.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks.patch > > > Still don't have a compelling argument for this, IMO. > > For those users who feel they do have a compelling argument for it, please > speak now or I'll end up maintaining this in -ck only forever. I've come to
I have just 256MB on this laptop and I know its limits. IME swap prefetch helps expecially when I need to open some memory demanding application for just a few mintues (OO.org, gimp on large images, pretty large builds, any 3D app) and then go back to my usual <high number> of xterms.
I did definitely noticed the difference when Andrew dropped the patch the first time. As already said, it seems so natural the idea of swapping-in when some room is available that I immediately got used to having this functionality and I support its inclusion.
Thanks -- mattia :wq! - 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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