Re: [PATCH] mm: Implement Swap Prefetching v23

[Andrew Morton]

Con Kolivas <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

It's likely to have quite some impact on the overall behaviour of the
feature - would need careful testing.  It might end up screwing the whole
thing up.

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