From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751067AbWBJERw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:17:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751063AbWBJERw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:17:52 -0500 Received: from smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.117]:16541 "HELO smtp209.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751066AbWBJERv (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:17:51 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Sz1G74xmAfFPhi5fBYSnOaR+bmch2jHhJu8YN6u6rCdDNJvFL7bRqd7z/IaJ9GQQBI4UJ5WYcKaF3uzwCiuQwTzNml/2h0dyLAo/44BiQohZFMxUrnqAHGDZn218ES1MQuEwYtfUCsnQYduymSUY4R98qAfpkpC6gsXCatutjn4= ; Message-ID: <43EC13EB.3010501@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:17:47 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, ck@vds.kolivas.org, pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Implement Swap Prefetching v23 References: <200602101355.41421.kernel@kolivas.org> <200602101449.59486.kernel@kolivas.org> <43EC1164.4000605@yahoo.com.au> <200602101514.40140.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200602101514.40140.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > On Friday 10 February 2006 15:07, Nick Piggin wrote: >>Well they go on the head of the inactive list and will kick out file >>backed pagecache. Which was my concern about reducing the usefulness >>of useful swapping on desktop systems. > > > Ok I see. We don't have a way to add to the tail of that list though? Is that > a worthwhile addition to this (ever growing) project? That would definitely Don't know, can you tell us? -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com