[APPLIED] [PATCH 0/1] [Maverick] readahead consumption tracing
Leann Ogasawara
leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Fri Jul 30 00:18:08 UTC 2010
Applied to Maverick linux master.
Thanks,
Leann
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 09:46 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> ureadahead would love to be able to work out what of the pages read-ahead
> both by the kernel and indeed by itself were actually used. With this we
> can monitor usage for all boots, allowing the pack to be loaded giving us
> performant boot while also allowing us to re-generate the pack. No more
> slow boots after installation of a package. It also allows us to know
> exactly which blocks are needed, which can significantly improve boot
> time on SSD based systems.
>
> This should be compatible with the current ureadahead and will power
> ureadahead2. Scott has tested with this patch and seemd happy.
>
> For Maverick.
>
> -apw
>
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: add tracing for user initiated readahead requests
>
> include/linux/page-flags.h | 3 +++
> mm/filemap.c | 3 +++
> mm/memory.c | 7 ++++++-
> mm/mincore.c | 2 ++
> mm/readahead.c | 1 +
> 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
>
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