Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH prototype] [0/8] Predictive bitmaps for ELF executables | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:12:11 -0700
> I did some work on that many years ago and I do recall that it > helped, but I forget how much.
I wrote such a patch ages ago as well.
Frankly, based upon my experiences then and what I know now, I think it's a lose to do this.
Better to 1) have enough ram and 2) make the reclaim smarter about important "executable" page cache pages.
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