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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap write clustering
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Basically this new swap_writepage function looks for dirty swapcache pages
> which may be contiguous (reverse and forward searching wrt to the physical
> address of the page being passed to swap_writepage) and builds a page list
> which is written "at once".
> 
> The patch is against test13pre3.
> 
> Comments are welcome. (especially about the __find_page_nolock
> modification)
> 

Have you any benchmarks for this?
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