Re: Anticipatory prefaulting in the page fault handler V1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 16:45:02 EST




On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> I see. Yet I noticed that while the patch makes system time decrease,
> for some reason the wall time is increasing with the patch applied.
> Why is that, or am I misreading your tables?

I assume that you're looking at the final "both patches applied" case.

It has ten repetitions, while the other two tables only have three. That
would explain the discrepancy.

Linus
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