From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: ck@vds.kolivas.org
Cc: "Kacper Wysocki" <kacperw@online.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ck] Swap prefetch tester
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:26:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705171926.04165.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <367a23780705151304s49734da1u778ab1ea96b3e9ed@mail.gmail.com>
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 06:04, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> ...a nice order of magnitude better! Very happy you fixed this Con.
Great!, thanks for testing.
> Have I understood correctly that there are more prefetch improvements
> in ck2 than just the sp38 patch?
No; 2.6.21-ck2 simply brings it up to sp38. The code in -ck for swap prefetch
is a little different to suit the SD scheduler and the SCHED_IDLEPRIO patch.
>
> I'll post more results if I ever manage to tear myself from the
> computer for 10 minutes when I'm home - it looks like I have a yiff
> daemon running at 7% cpu all the time which might have affected the
> results.
>
> Speaking of "feel", the net effect of swap prefetch for me seems to be
> that I don't notice it - that is, I don't notice my programs behaving
> sluggishly when I come back to the computer. Excellent!
Excellent!. Thanks very much for your feedback.
--
-ck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 2:10 Standalone swap prefetch patch for mainline Con Kolivas
2007-05-14 2:17 ` Swap prefetch tester Con Kolivas
2007-05-15 20:04 ` [ck] " Kacper Wysocki
2007-05-17 9:26 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
2007-05-15 14:45 ` Standalone swap prefetch patch for mainline Brad Campbell
2007-05-15 15:18 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-05-15 15:47 ` Brad Campbell
2007-05-15 16:13 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-05-17 9:20 ` Con Kolivas
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