Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:45:13 +0000 (GMT) | From | Stephane Casset <> | Subject | Re: Magic in swap code. :-) |
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:34:38 +0200 > From: "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de> > To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> > Subject: Re: Magic in swap code. :-) > > > I am not a kernel hacker but a read carefully this thread about swap > > performence... > > And I have a idea, don't know if it is good or bad so here it is as is : > > > > Lets implement a state of kswap where it tries to pre-swap a page, > > to pre-swap a page is just put it on disk mark it in the page structure > > as being on disk but KEEP it in memory. > > This is how swap cache works :-)
Ooops ;) Sorry ;) But how do you explain the massive io when swapping then ? If the swap cache works as it should there should be very few disk activity...
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