Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 06:56:09 EST


On Tuesday 22 May 2007 20:46, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It clearly should not consider 'itself' as IO activity. This suggests
> some bug in the 'detect activity' mechanism, agreed? I'm wondering
> whether you are seeing the same problem, or is all swap-prefetch IO on
> your system continuous until it's done [or some other IO comes
> inbetween]?

When nothing else is happening anywhere on the system it reads in bursts and
goes to sleep during journal writeout.

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