From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: faster boots?
Date: 05 Apr 2002 10:41:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73pu1esfjw.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CACEF18.CE742314@zip.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204042330270.10358-100000@twinlark.arctic.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
dean gaudet <dean-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:
>
> in some ways, the filesystem is the wrong place to do this type of
> activity -- you could approach the problem as a block layer device between
> the fs and the hardware which maintains statistics on access patterns and
> moves blocks around to optimise access time -- which lets you fix all
> sorts of seeking problems. i guess the challenge would be maintaining a
> map of logical block number to physical block number. hmm. guess that's
> kind of hard.
LVM does this already (including the statistics). I guess you could write
a pass to reorganize PEs and make sure that a bootup time the PEs
are always read completely even when they contain multiple files.
-Andi
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2002-04-05 8:41 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2002-04-07 20:10 ` faster boots? Stevie O
2002-04-06 17:53 Re: " Alan Cox
2002-04-06 19:01 ` Joe
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2002-04-05 18:23 Torrey Hoffman
2002-04-05 8:00 willy tarreau
2002-04-05 13:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-05 13:21 ` willy tarreau
2002-04-05 15:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-05 16:20 ` willy tarreau
2002-04-05 23:10 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-04-05 2:10 joeja
2002-04-05 7:44 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-05 12:13 ` Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher
2002-04-05 15:14 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-04-04 23:54 joeja
2002-04-05 0:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 1:00 ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-05 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-05 2:18 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-05 2:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-05 3:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-05 3:21 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 5:38 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-05 12:49 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 16:33 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-05 23:02 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-04-05 23:07 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-06 0:07 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-04-06 0:29 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-07 14:42 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-08 0:48 ` Itai Nahshon
2002-04-08 0:57 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-08 1:14 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-08 4:17 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-04-08 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-08 16:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-08 16:48 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-08 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-09 0:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-09 22:22 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-12 10:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-12 11:42 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-12 14:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-04-14 19:40 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-15 13:34 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2002-04-08 17:08 ` Mark Mielke
2002-04-08 17:49 ` Rene Rebe
2002-04-08 18:02 ` G . Sumner Hayes
2002-04-08 6:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-04-08 17:06 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-08 16:13 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-04-08 15:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-08 17:32 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-08 18:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-08 18:40 ` David Lang
2002-04-08 18:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-08 19:06 ` David Lang
2002-04-08 19:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-04-08 8:03 ` Helge Hafting
2002-04-08 12:38 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-04-08 14:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-08 9:55 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-08 12:15 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-04-08 12:09 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-04-05 6:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-04-05 12:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-04-05 13:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-05 21:33 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-05 5:26 ` Richard Gooch
2002-04-05 7:45 ` dean gaudet
2002-04-05 18:43 ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-05 0:44 ` Piotr Esden-Tempski
2002-04-05 13:37 ` Mauricio Nuñez
2002-04-05 1:11 ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-04-05 1:55 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-04-05 12:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-10 1:20 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-04-05 19:08 ` Mark H. Wood
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