Re: [RFC] kernel facilities for cache prefetching

From: Wu Fengguang
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 22:34:28 EST


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:36:12AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Could we use this instead of blockdev freezing/big suspend image
> > support? It should permit us to resume quickly (with small image), and
> > then do readahead. ... that will give us usable machine quickly, still
> > very responsive desktop after resume?
>
> Unrelated to bdev freezing, and will involve far more seeking than reading a
> contiguous image (as they normally are).

Yes, needs more pondering on this issue...
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