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From: "Lenar Lõhmus" <lenar@vision.ee>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc5-mm3
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:50:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A2B82C.2060403@vision.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051214234016.0112a86e.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

>mm/ microoptimisations
>
>-mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch
>-mm-implement-swap-prefetching-default-y.patch
>-mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks.patch
>-mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks-2.patch
>-mm-swap-prefetch-magnify.patch
>
> Dropped swap prefetching, sorry.  I wasn't able to notice much benefit from
> it in my testing, and the number of mm/ patches in getting crazy, so we don't
> have capacity for speculative things at present.
>
For me it seems it is not so speculative. It really has effect when 
running with not-so-uber
memory/machine configuration.

After some big compile during lunch-time everything slowly crawls back 
to the screen when
I enter my password to unlock screen without these patches.

But with these applied I came back from my lunch and everything is as 
snappy as it was when
I left it.

This is with 256M of memory and old Duron CPU in machine. Hard disk 
being not too speedy either.

So, I'm really sorry to see these patches dropped instead pushing 
towards mainline.

Lenar


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-15  7:40 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Andrew Morton
2005-12-15  9:48 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Andi Kleen
2005-12-15 15:36   ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Andi Kleen
2005-12-15 14:30 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Alexander E. Patrakov
2005-12-16 12:50 ` Lenar Lõhmus [this message]
2005-12-16 23:17 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Greg KH
2005-12-17  0:15   ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 J.A. Magallon
2005-12-17  1:42     ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Greg KH
2005-12-20 21:03   ` [PATCH] pci device sysdata may be null check in pcibus_to_node Andy Whitcroft
2005-12-20 23:16     ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-22 21:06       ` [PATCH] pci device ensure sysdata initialised Andy Whitcroft
2005-12-22 23:18         ` Greg KH
2005-12-22 23:43           ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-12-22 23:51             ` Greg KH
2005-12-22 23:56               ` Andy Whitcroft
2005-12-18  8:16 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Grant Coady
2005-12-18 11:31   ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-12-18 19:54     ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Grant Coady
2005-12-22 17:48     ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Greg KH
2005-12-23  1:05       ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 David Brownell
2005-12-21 23:14 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Jesper Juhl
2005-12-22  4:16   ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Con Kolivas
2005-12-22 18:13   ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 Mattia Dongili
2005-12-29 23:46 ` 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 [BUG] smp_processor_id() in preemptible code Peter Williams

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