Re: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1

David S. Miller
2004-12-08T21:26:27Z

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:56:00 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> A patch like this is important for applications that allocate and preset
> large amounts of memory on startup. It will drastically reduce the startup
> times.

I see. Yet I noticed that while the patch makes system time decrease,
for some reason the wall time is increasing with the patch applied.
Why is that, or am I misreading your tables?