From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IDNC2-0000i5-Q1 for linux-mm@kvack.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:25:02 +0200 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([194.72.81.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:25:02 +0200 Received: from frank by mail.artimi.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:25:02 +0200 From: Frank Kingswood Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 - Completely Fair Swap Prefetch Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:11:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200707102015.44004.kernel@kolivas.org> <9a8748490707231608h453eefffx68b9c391897aba70@mail.gmail.com> <46A57068.3070701@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org List-ID: Nick Piggin wrote: > However, if we can improve basic page reclaim where it is obviously > lacking, that is always preferable. eg: being a highly speculative > operation, swap prefetch is not great for power efficiency -- but we > still want laptop users to have a good experience as well, right? Maybe we need someone (say, a Redhat engineer) to develop a "Completely Fair Swap Prefetch"? Frank -- 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