From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764178AbXGYLnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:43:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759785AbXGYLnJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:43:09 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:38162 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760109AbXGYLnI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:43:08 -0400 Message-ID: <46A736C9.4090701@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:40:57 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, david@lang.hm, Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 References: <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> <30701.1185347660@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <46A7074B.50608@gmail.com> <20070725082822.GA13098@elte.hu> <46A70D37.3060005@gmail.com> <20070725113401.GA23341@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070725113401.GA23341@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/25/2007 01:34 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > and the fact is: updatedb discards a considerable portion of the cache > completely unnecessarily: on a reasonably complex box no way do all the > inodes and dentries fit into all of RAM, so we just trash everything. Okay, but unless I've now managed to really quite horribly confuse myself, that wouldn't have anything to do with _swap_ prefetch would it? Rene. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46A736C9.4090701@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:40:57 +0200 From: Rene Herman MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 References: <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> <30701.1185347660@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <46A7074B.50608@gmail.com> <20070725082822.GA13098@elte.hu> <46A70D37.3060005@gmail.com> <20070725113401.GA23341@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20070725113401.GA23341@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, david@lang.hm, Nick Piggin , Ray Lee , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/25/2007 01:34 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > and the fact is: updatedb discards a considerable portion of the cache > completely unnecessarily: on a reasonably complex box no way do all the > inodes and dentries fit into all of RAM, so we just trash everything. Okay, but unless I've now managed to really quite horribly confuse myself, that wouldn't have anything to do with _swap_ prefetch would it? Rene. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org