Still waiting for swap prefetch
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| If a system is idle, but has a lot of application data sitting around in
| swap, maybe it should page some of it back in. That way, the kernel won't
| spend too much time paging when the applications need to run again.
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| So swap prefetch may yet make it into the mainline - that discussion is not,
| yet, done. If we are especially lucky, Con will find a way to get back into
| kernel development, where his talents and user focus are very much in need.
| But this sort of situation will certainly come up again.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/073107-kernel.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Related:
Linux: Revisiting Swap Prefetch
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| Another thread discussed potentially merging the swap prefetch patch
| into the mainline Linux kernel. Con Kolivas started the thread saying
| "I fixed all bugs I could find and improved it as much as I could last
| kernel cycle. Put me and the users out of our misery and merge it now
| or delete it forever please."
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/11748
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