From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.ccr.net (ccr@alogconduit1ag.ccr.net [208.130.159.7]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA05906 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:29:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] swapin readahead References: <87vhjvkccu.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <199812021735.RAA04489@dax.scot.redhat.com> <87d862gs3h.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> <8767bt7gge.fsf@atlas.CARNet.hr> From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 03 Dec 1998 09:39:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: Zlatko Calusic's message of "03 Dec 1998 09:55:13 +0100" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Rik van Riel , Linux MM List-ID: >>>>> "ZC" == Zlatko Calusic writes: ZC> Speaking about swap files (as opposed to swap partitions) what is the ZC> reason for synchronous operation when swapping to them, at first ZC> place? Races? It appears it was implmented that way long originally and no one has changed the code. It is almost trivial to change to using brw_page. In my shmfs code I have that change, though I haven't tried it in a while. Eric -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org