> I haven't tested it much, but my kvm boots. There're few places where code > should be fixed. __do_fault() and filemap_fault() are too ugly and need to > be cleaned. > > I don't have any performance data yet. > > Any thoughts?
It seems very drastic to do it unconditionally. How about at least a simple stream detection heuristic and perhaps also madvise? There are some extreme cases where workloads could use a lot more memory than before, if they access their memory sparsely in the right pattern. -Andi -- 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/
