On 7/28/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actual physical disk ops are precious resource and anything that mostly > reduces the number will be a win - not to stay swap prefetch is the right > answer but accidentally or otherwise there are good reasons it may happen > to help. > > Bigger more linear chunks of writeout/readin is much more important I > suspect than swap prefetching.
<nod>. The larger the chunks are that we swap out, the less it actually hurts to swap, which might make all this a moot point. Not all I/O is created equal... Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
