On Tuesday 10 July 2007 18:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > When replying, please rewrite the subject suitably and try to Cc: the > appropriate developer(s).
~swap prefetch
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Put me and the users out of our misery and merge it now
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For the record; it merges, builds, and runs cleanly on x86_64 vanilla+CFS provided sched-add_above_background_load is also merged (you need the old one that adds an inline to sched.h, not the new one that depends on SD-isms). I believe that is already merged with -mm anyway.
I'd also be interested to see if there is a better way of doing what above_background_load() does with CFS, I think v18 added some functionality along these lines...
We all know swap prefetch has been tested out the wazoo since Moses was a little boy, is compile-time and runtime selectable, and gives an important and quantifiable performance increase to desktop systems. Save a Redhat employee some time reinventing the wheel and just merge it. This wheel already has dope 21" rims, homes ;-)