From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932168AbWDBIkE (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:40:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932172AbWDBIkE (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:40:04 -0400 Received: from smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.212]:60848 "HELO smtp102.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932168AbWDBIkD (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:40:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wxXGI34qv25Zcddop99F+IBjCDGZI6QUs/gznPNvJntk+FTRqtfVTScdxYh0XM4hg6hzac//tFKeD97wgRja6wTw48H9e9OnVgC7QfJppS3D3d4YcUI4gx4qoUTWxNSRixoTObmt4P6wJNBle98zkg6CxfDj3hnra28VEZKn4dw= ; Message-ID: <442F5721.2040906@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:46:25 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: ck list , linux list , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.16-ck3 References: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200604021401.13331.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. > It is configurable to any workload but the default ck patch is aimed at the > desktop and cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace. > > THESE INCLUDE THE PATCHES FROM 2.6.16.1 SO START WITH 2.6.16 AS YOUR BASE > > Apply to 2.6.16 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/ck/patches/2.6/2.6.16/2.6.16-ck3/patch-2.6.16-ck3.bz2 > The swap prefetching here, and the one in -mm AFAIKS still do not follow the lowmem reserve ratio correctly. This might explain why prefetching appears to help some people after updatedb swaps stuff out to make room for pagecache -- it may actually be dipping into lower zones when it shouldn't. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com