From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Cc: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: swapspace layout improvements advocacy
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:33:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105744748.9222.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050114225213.GA4841@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net>
On Gwe, 2005-01-14 at 22:52, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> I haven't tried the patch in question (unless it's in any Fedora
> kernels), but I've noticed that the single biggest step to improve
> swapping performance in 2.6 is to use the CFQ scheduler, not the AS
> scheduler. (That's also why Red Hat/Fedora kernels use CFQ as the
> default scheduler.)
Definitely the case. There is a lot wrong with our swap logic looked at
from the point of view of modern IDE disks at least beyond that though.
We'd be much better IMHO to have log structured swap so we can swap out
fast (which is normally time critical to get crap on disk and us back
running). The log tidier would then merge groups of pages either by va
or by read reference if they paged in and back out again.
There's probably an MSC or maybe a PHD lurking for someone in this sort
of area 8)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-15 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-05 0:32 page migration patchset Ray Bryant
2005-01-05 2:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-05 3:20 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-05 18:41 ` Steve Longerbeam
2005-01-05 19:23 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-05 23:00 ` Steve Longerbeam
2005-01-05 23:16 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-05 20:55 ` Hugh Dickins
[not found] ` <41DC7EAD.8010407@mvista.com>
2005-01-06 14:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 16:00 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-06 17:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-01-06 19:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 22:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-06 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-06 23:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-06 23:21 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-06 23:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-06 23:53 ` Anton Blanchard
2005-01-07 0:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-07 0:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-06 23:43 ` Steve Longerbeam
2005-01-06 23:58 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-01-11 15:38 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-11 19:00 ` Steve Longerbeam
2005-01-11 19:30 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-11 20:59 ` Steve Longerbeam
2005-01-12 12:35 ` Robin Holt
2005-01-12 18:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-12 18:45 ` Ray Bryant
2005-01-12 18:53 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-14 13:55 ` swapspace layout improvements advocacy Tim Schmielau
2005-01-14 18:15 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-14 22:52 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-01-15 0:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-01-15 2:26 ` Tim Schmielau
2005-01-15 8:55 ` Pasi Savolainen
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