From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080319.170937.247919863.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080319161211.2df88adc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080319020440.80379d50.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080319161211.2df88adc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:12:11 -0700 Return-Path: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: drepper@gmail.com, andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > I did some work on that many years ago and I do recall that it > helped, but I forget how much. I wrote such a patch ages ago as well. Frankly, based upon my experiences then and what I know now, I think it's a lose to do this. Better to 1) have enough ram and 2) make the reclaim smarter about important "executable" page cache pages. -- 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