From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <448A79C9.5000500@yahoo.com.au> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 17:50:33 +1000 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: merging swap prefetching Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton , Con Kolivas , Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-ID: I wasn't aware there was a push to merge swap prefetching in 2.6.18, until the -mm merge plans post. I would have expected to see some numbers, however I guess the "merge unless proven bad" approach for new features works too. I had a quick look at the code, and I think it still needs more cleanup and review... it is vaguely difficult to participate in discussions about these patches because they are often split over several iterations of versions/fixes, and because it isn't always clear what they depend on (although in the case of swap prefetching, that isn't so much of a problem). And also, there is no linux-mm thread to reply to... could we have some of the intrusive mm/ patches intended for 2.6.18 posted here before they get merged, or is that too much trouble? As far as swap prefetching itself goes, I still don't like it much (same issues still stand), but with some cleaning up the patch shouldn't be too bad, and I can turn it off... so if people want it and if numbers show it is working, I wouldn't object. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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