Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: yield during swap prefetching
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:08:30 -0500
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On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 12:28 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> I can't distinguish between when cpu activity is important (game) and when it 
> is not (compile), and assuming worst case scenario and not doing any swap 
> prefetching is my intent. I could add cpu accounting to prefetch_suitable() 
> instead, but that gets rather messy and yielding achieves the same endpoint. 

Shouldn't the game be running with RT priority or at least at a low nice
value?

Lee

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