Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:05:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.59-mm5 |
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jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > So what anticipatory scheduling does is very simple: if an application > > has performed a read, do *nothing at all* for a few milliseconds. Just > > return to userspace (or to the filesystem) in the expectation that the > > application or filesystem will quickly submit another read which is > > closeby. > > Does this affect the faulting in of executable pages as well? >
Yes. It should in theory decrease average major fault latency when there's I/O load. That is unproven.
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