Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751057AbWCWLYn (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:24:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751118AbWCWLYn (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:24:43 -0500 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.200]:21419 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751053AbWCWLYm convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:24:42 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bwxjcMpny7N6qpcN8PaJuquIstnLScdTKkyiyPgQC/fU7xziWYC/9Jh9H7DK6ydR96vwNRVyrVlZjofX27pVYb1myPzJSVt+nJGok/aw1MSL3EwWhp2bYATvlEJdgneRxfxLLN2ulEigxtb5LzSf+7mW/Xrh5YJ75apgxRJaB/w= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:24:42 -0400 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Goddard_Rosa?=" To: "Con Kolivas" Subject: Re: [ck] swap prefetching merge plans Cc: "Andrew Morton" , ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200603231804.36334.kernel@kolivas.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060322205305.0604f49b.akpm@osdl.org> <200603231804.36334.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1124 Lines: 30 On 3/23/06, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:53 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A look at the -mm lineup for 2.6.17: > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-fix.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks.patch > > > Still don't have a compelling argument for this, IMO. > > For those users who feel they do have a compelling argument for it, please > speak now or I'll end up maintaining this in -ck only forever. I've come to > depend on it with my workloads now so I'm never dropping it. There's no point > me explaining how it is useful yet again, though, because I just end up > looking like I'm handwaving. It seems a shame for it not to be available to > all linux users. It makes my desktop usable in the morning for sure, I feel that it makes difference to me. Best regards, -- []s, Andr? Goddard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/