From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 17:54:07 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: swap-prefetch: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans Message-ID: <20070503155407.GA7536@elte.hu> References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Con Kolivas List-ID: * Andrew Morton wrote: > - If replying, please be sure to cc the appropriate individuals. > Please also consider rewriting the Subject: to something > appropriate. i'm wondering about swap-prefetch: mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch swap-prefetch-avoid-repeating-entry.patch add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-swap-prefetch.patch The swap-prefetch feature is relatively compact: 10 files changed, 745 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) it is contained mostly to itself: mm/swap_prefetch.c | 581 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ i've reviewed it once again and in the !CONFIG_SWAP_PREFETCH case it's a clear NOP, while in the CONFIG_SWAP_PREFETCH=y case all the feedback i've seen so far was positive. Time to have this upstream and time for a desktop-oriented distro to pick it up. I think this has been held back way too long. It's .config selectable and it is as ready for integration as it ever is going to be. So it's a win/win scenario. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org