From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] properly account readahead file major faults
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:55:02 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511221249470.24803@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051122062321.GA30413@logos.cnet>
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Pages which hit the first time in cache due to readahead _have_ caused
> IO, and as such they should be counted as major faults.
Have caused IO, or have benefitted from IO which was done earlier?
It sounds debatable, each will have their own idea of what's major.
Maybe PageUptodate at the time the entry is found in the page cache
should come into it? !PageUptodate implying that we'll be waiting
for read to complete.
Hugh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-22 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 14:00 Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-22 4:24 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-11-22 6:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-22 12:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2005-11-22 12:55 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2005-11-22 8:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-22 16:05 ` Charles Ballowe
2005-11-22 10:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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