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

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> 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 ;)

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> 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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