From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de, riel@redhat.com,
mztabzr@0pointer.de, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:15:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ve5a47yr.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201773206.28547.259.camel@lappy> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Thu\, 31 Jan 2008 10\:53\:26 +0100")
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> writes:
>
> Ah, that is Lennarts Pulse Audio thing, he has samples in memory which
> might not have been used for a while, and he wants to be able to
> pre-fetch those when he suspects they might need to be played. So that
> once the audio thread comes along and stuffs them down /dev/dsp its all
> nice in memory.
The real problem that seems to make swapping so slow is that the data
tends to be badly fragmented on the swap partition. I suspect if that
problem was attached the need for such prefetching would be far less
because swap in would be much faster.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-30 17:28 [PATCH] mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory, mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-30 18:15 ` [PATCH] " Matt Mackall
2008-01-30 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-31 9:12 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-31 9:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-31 10:05 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-31 10:18 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 10:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-31 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-31 11:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 10:52 ` Rik van Riel
2008-01-31 11:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 11:09 ` Rik van Riel
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