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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: Implement Swap Prefetching v23
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>>Andrew Morton wrote:
>>
>>>Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ok I see. We don't have a way to add to the tail of that list though?
>>>
>>>
>>>del_page_from_lru() + (new) add_page_to_inactive_list_tail().
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is that
>>>>a worthwhile addition to this (ever growing) project? That would definitely
>>>>have an impact on the other code if not all done within swap_prefetch.c..
>>>>which would also be quite a large open coded something.
>>>
>>>
>>>Do both of the above in a new function in swap.c.
>>>
>>
>>That'll require the caller to do lru locking.
>>
>>I'd add an lru_cache_add_tail, use it instead of the current lru_cache_add
>>that Con's got now, and just implement it in a simple manner, without
>>pagevecs.
>
>
> umm, that's what I said ;)
>

You said del_page_from_lru(), which doesn't belong in a function
called lru_cache_add_tail.

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