linux-kernel - Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:59:31 +1000
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@...patico.ca>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

Ray Lee wrote:

> Another is a more philosophical hangup -- running a process that polls
> periodically to improve system performance seems backward.

You mean like the kprefetchd of swap prefetch? ;)


> Okay, so
> that's my problem to get over, not yours.

If it was a problem you could add some event trigger to wake it up.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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