Linux: Revisiting Swap Prefetch

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 12, 2007 2:27 AM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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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." Replying to an off-list message, Andrew Morton asked users of the patch, "please provide us more details on your usage and testing of that code. Amount of memory, workload, observed results, etc?"

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