Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:26:27 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1 |
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:56:00 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> A patch like this is important for applications that allocate and preset > large amounts of memory on startup. It will drastically reduce the startup > times.
I see. Yet I noticed that while the patch makes system time decrease, for some reason the wall time is increasing with the patch applied. Why is that, or am I misreading your tables? - 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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