From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kernel facilities for cache prefetching
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 10:30:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146558617.32045.23.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060502080619.GA5406@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 16:06 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:58:44AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > PREVIOUS WORKS
> > >
> > > There has been some similar efforts, i.e.
> > > - Linux: Boot Time Speedups Through Precaching
> > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/2157
> > > - Andrew Morton's kernel module solution
> > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/fboot.tar.gz
> > > - preload - adaptive readahead daemon
> > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/preload
> >
> > you missed the solution Fedora deploys since over a year using readahead
>
> Thanks, and sorry for more previous works that I failed to mention here :)
one interesting thing that came out of the fedora readahead work is that
most of the bootup isn't actually IO bound. My test machine for example
can load all the data into ram in about 10 seconds, so that the rest of
the boot is basically IO-less. But that still takes 2 minutes....
So I'm not entirely sure how much you can win by just attacking this.
Another interesting approach would be to actually put all the data you
want to use in a non-fragmented, sequential area on disk somehow (there
is an OLS paper submitted about that by Ben) so that at least the disk
side is seekless...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-02 8:30 UTC|newest]
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2006-05-02 7:50 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-02 12:46 ` Diego Calleja
[not found] ` <20060502144203.GA10594@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-02 14:42 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-02 16:07 ` Diego Calleja
[not found] ` <20060503064503.GA4781@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 6:45 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-03 18:14 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-03 23:39 ` Zan Lynx
2006-05-04 1:37 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-02 15:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-02 16:35 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <20060503041106.GC5915@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 4:11 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-03 17:28 ` Badari Pulavarty
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2006-05-04 15:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-04 16:57 ` Badari Pulavarty
[not found] ` <20060505144451.GA6134@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-05 14:44 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20060503071325.GC4781@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 7:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-03 12:59 ` Nikita Danilov
2006-05-03 22:20 ` Rik van Riel
[not found] ` <20060506011125.GA9099@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-06 1:11 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-04 0:28 ` Linda Walsh
2006-05-04 1:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-04 7:08 ` Ph. Marek
2006-05-04 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20060504121454.GB6008@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-04 12:14 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-04 12:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-03 21:45 ` Linda Walsh
[not found] ` <20060504121212.GA6008@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-04 12:12 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-04 18:57 ` Linda Walsh
[not found] ` <20060505152007.GB6134@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-05 15:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-04 9:02 ` Helge Hafting
2006-05-02 7:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20060502080619.GA5406@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-02 8:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-02 8:30 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
[not found] ` <20060502085325.GA9190@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-02 8:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-06 6:49 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-05-02 8:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-02 11:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
[not found] ` <20060502114853.GA9983@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-02 11:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-02 22:03 ` Dave Jones
2006-05-02 8:09 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] ` <20060502082009.GA9038@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-02 8:20 ` Wu Fengguang
2006-05-03 22:05 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-05-02 19:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-02 23:36 ` Nigel Cunningham
[not found] ` <20060503023505.GB5915@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 2:35 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20060503023223.GA5915@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 2:32 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20060503071948.GD4781@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-03 7:19 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20060504122830.GA6205@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2006-05-04 12:28 ` Wu Fengguang
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