Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: swap prefetching merge plans | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:40:56 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thursday 23 March 2006 08:04, 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 > depend on it with my workloads now so I'm never dropping it. There's no point > me explaining how it is useful yet again, though, because I just end up > looking like I'm handwaving. It seems a shame for it not to be available to > all linux users.
AFAICT, it may help get the system more responsive after resume from suspend to disk. However, I'd like to get some hard data to support this, but I have a little time to test it myself now. Also I haven't thought about the methodology yet.
If anyone can help with that, please go for it.
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