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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:29:55 -0700
From: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Rene Herman" <rene.herman@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
"Daniel Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>,
"Mike Galbraith" <efault@....de>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Frank Kingswood" <frank@...gswood-consulting.co.uk>,
"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
"ck list" <ck@....kolivas.org>, "Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]
On 7/28/07, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Actual physical disk ops are precious resource and anything that mostly
> reduces the number will be a win - not to stay swap prefetch is the right
> answer but accidentally or otherwise there are good reasons it may happen
> to help.
>
> Bigger more linear chunks of writeout/readin is much more important I
> suspect than swap prefetching.
<nod>. The larger the chunks are that we swap out, the less it
actually hurts to swap, which might make all this a moot point. Not
all I/O is created equal...
Ray
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