Re: [PATCH] swapin readahead

Eric W. Biederman
1998-12-03T15:29:13Z

>>>>> "ZC" == Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr> writes:

ZC> Speaking about swap files (as opposed to swap partitions) what is the
ZC> reason for synchronous operation when swapping to them, at first
ZC> place? Races?

It appears it was implmented that way long originally and no one has
changed the code. It is almost trivial to change to using brw_page.

In my shmfs code I have that change, though I haven't tried it in a while.

Eric