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From: Felix von Leitner <felix-kernel@fefe.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Request: I/O request recording
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:10:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040124181026.GA22100@codeblau.de> (raw)

I would like to have a user space program that I could run while I cold
start KDE.  The program would then record which I/O pages were read in
which order.  The output of that program could then be used to pre-cache
all those pages, but in an order that reduces disk head movement.
Demand Loading unfortunately produces lots of random page I/O scattered
all over the disk.

Having a way to know which pages are accessed in which order at a
typical cold start would be very benefitial, not only for the purpose
described above but it could also be used as input for a linker code
reordering optimization.

What do you think?

Felix

             reply	other threads:[~2004-01-24 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-24 18:10 Felix von Leitner [this message]
2004-01-24 18:23 ` Request: I/O request recording Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-24 18:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-24 19:25   ` Ville Herva
2004-01-24 22:43     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-24 20:11 ` Diego Calleja
2004-01-24 21:09   ` Ville Herva
2004-01-24 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-24 23:53   ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-25  0:03     ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-25  0:09       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-25  0:04     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-25  0:10       ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-25 12:26     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-01-25 22:59   ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-25 23:09     ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-25 23:29       ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-25 23:38         ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-26  0:23           ` Diego Calleja García
2004-01-26  0:32             ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-26 11:50           ` Bart Samwel
2004-01-26 11:57             ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-27 19:13           ` Bart Samwel

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