> Anticipatory prefaulting raises the highest fault rate obtainable three-fold > through gang scheduling faults but may allocate some pages to a task that are > not needed.
IIRC that costed more than it saved, at least for forky workloads like a kernel compile - extra cost in zap_pte_range etc. If things have changed substantially in that path, I guess we could run the numbers again - has been a couple of years. M. - 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/
