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

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Message-Id: <20070725230609.d2d1be59.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:06:09 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.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

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:37 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:

> Not that I want to say anything about swap prefetch getting merged: my
> inbox is already full of enough "helpful suggestions" about that,

give them the kernel interfaces, they can do it themselves ;)

> so I'll
> just be happy to have a look at little things like updatedb.

Yes, that is a little thing.  I mean, even if the kernel's behaviour
during an updatedb run was "perfect" (ie: does what we the designers
curently intend it to do (whatever that is)) then the core problem isn't
solved: short-term workload evicts your working set and you have to
synchronously reestablish it.
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