Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:46:25 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-ck3 |
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Con Kolivas wrote: > These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. > It is configurable to any workload but the default ck patch is aimed at the > desktop and cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace. > > THESE INCLUDE THE PATCHES FROM 2.6.16.1 SO START WITH 2.6.16 AS YOUR BASE > > Apply to 2.6.16 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.16/2.6.16-ck3/patch-2.6.16-ck3.bz2 >
The swap prefetching here, and the one in -mm AFAIKS still do not follow the lowmem reserve ratio correctly. This might explain why prefetching appears to help some people after updatedb swaps stuff out to make room for pagecache -- it may actually be dipping into lower zones when it shouldn't.
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