From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org
Subject: Re: swap prefetching merge plans
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:40:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603231940.56931.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603231804.36334.kernel@kolivas.org>
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.
Greetings,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-23 4:53 -mm " Andrew Morton
2006-03-23 7:04 ` swap prefetching " Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 7:56 ` [ck] " Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-03-23 8:01 ` jos poortvliet
2006-03-23 8:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-23 9:09 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 9:24 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 13:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-23 8:33 ` Thomas Kuther
2006-03-23 11:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-23 11:24 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2006-03-23 11:57 ` Spike
2006-03-23 12:03 ` Spike
2006-03-23 12:16 ` Spike
2006-03-23 11:58 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2006-03-23 13:58 ` Francesco Biscani
2006-03-23 15:37 ` James Rayner
2006-03-23 15:34 ` [ck] " Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2006-03-23 18:35 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-03-23 18:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2006-03-25 14:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-25 15:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-25 23:44 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 5:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 8:08 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 7:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 9:34 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-27 15:37 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2006-03-27 22:19 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-28 6:16 ` [ck] " Chase Venters
2006-03-23 7:59 ` -mm " Ryan M.
2006-03-23 8:09 ` [ck] " Jens Axboe
2006-03-23 9:07 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 12:12 ` [ck] " Jens Axboe
2006-03-23 10:39 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-03-23 12:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-23 12:49 ` [PATCH] remove pps support Roman Zippel
2006-03-23 13:43 ` -mm merge plans Michal Piotrowski
2006-03-24 23:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-24 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-25 0:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-25 1:53 ` Arthur Othieno
2006-03-23 7:56 Re:swap prefetching " Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-23 8:26 ` swap " Nick Piggin
2006-03-23 11:47 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-23 13:50 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-24 8:16 ` Helge Hafting
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