On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:27:45PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > I guess 10% isn't a small amount. Though it would be nice to have > before/after numbers for Linux. And, like Andrew was saying, we could > just _attempt_ to put contiguous pages in pagecache rather than > _require_ it. Which is still robust under fragmentation, and benefits > everyone, not just files with a large pagecache size.
What sort of strategy do you intend to use to speculatively populate the pagecache with contiguous pages? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
