From: Spike <spike@spykes.net>
To: Spike <spike@spykes.net>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ck] swap prefetching merge plans
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:03:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323080333.48d39108@buffy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060323075756.70eced5a@buffy>
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:57:56 -0400
Spike <spike@spykes.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:04:36 +1100
> Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Con
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>
I must add that if it gets merged you'd probably see every desktop
oriented Linux distro under the sun enable it in their default kernels.
Most people don't ever see the value of something until it becomes
mainline.
Bren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-23 4:53 -mm merge plans Andrew Morton
2006-03-23 7:04 ` swap prefetching " Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 7:56 ` [ck] " Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-03-23 8:01 ` jos poortvliet
2006-03-23 8:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-23 9:09 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 9:24 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 13:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-03-23 8:33 ` Thomas Kuther
2006-03-23 11:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-23 11:24 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2006-03-23 11:57 ` Spike
2006-03-23 12:03 ` Spike [this message]
2006-03-23 12:16 ` Spike
2006-03-23 11:58 ` Lenar Lõhmus
2006-03-23 13:58 ` Francesco Biscani
2006-03-23 15:37 ` James Rayner
2006-03-23 15:34 ` [ck] " Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2006-03-23 18:35 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-03-23 18:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-25 14:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-25 15:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-25 23:44 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 5:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 8:08 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 7:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 9:34 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-27 15:37 ` [ck] " André Goddard Rosa
2006-03-27 22:19 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-28 6:16 ` [ck] " Chase Venters
2006-03-23 7:59 ` -mm " Ryan M.
2006-03-23 8:09 ` [ck] " Jens Axboe
2006-03-23 9:07 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 12:12 ` [ck] " Jens Axboe
2006-03-23 10:39 ` Takashi Iwai
2006-03-23 12:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-23 12:49 ` [PATCH] remove pps support Roman Zippel
2006-03-23 13:43 ` -mm merge plans Michal Piotrowski
2006-03-24 23:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-24 23:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-25 0:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-03-25 1:53 ` Arthur Othieno
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