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[News] CK and Swap Prefetch in the Linux Kernel

  • Subject: [News] CK and Swap Prefetch in the Linux Kernel
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:15:41 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.  
|
| 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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