Re: swap prefetching merge plans

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

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
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