linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Message-ID: <469471E5.9070501@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:00:05 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
CC:	Matthew Hawkins <darthmdh@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

Ray Lee wrote:

> As an honest question, what's it going to take here? If I were to
> write something that watched the task stats at process exit (cool
> feature, that), and recorded the IO wait time or some such, and showed
> it was lower with a kernel with the prefetch, would *that* get us some
> forward motion on this?

Honest answer? Sure, why not. Numbers are good.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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