People wrote:
> >> I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in
> >> though, so suspect that's not the case.
> >
> > Stopping the bush-circumference beating, I do not. -ck (and gentoo) have
> > this massive Calimero thing going among their users where people are
> > much less interested in technology than in how the nasty big kernel
> > meanies are keeping them down (*).
>
> I think the problem is elsewhere. Users don't say: "My apps get paged
> back in." They say: "My system is more responsive". They really don't
> care *why* the reaction to a mouse click that takes three seconds with
> a mainline kernel is instantaneous with -ck. Nasty big kernel meanies,
> OTOH, want to understand *why* a patch helps in order to decide whether
> it is really a good idea to merge it. So you've got a bunch of patches
> (aka -ck) which visibly improve the overall responsiveness of a desktop
> system, but apparently no one can conclusively explain why or how they
> achieve that, and therefore they cannot be merged into mainline.
>
> I don't have a solution to that dilemma either.
IMHO, what everybody agrees on, is that swap-prefetch has a positive effect
in some cases, and nobody can prove an adverse effect (excluding power
consumption). The reason for this positive effect is also crystal clear:
It prefetches from swap on idle into free memory, ie: it doesn't force
anybody out, and they are the first to be dropped without further swap-out,
which sounds really smart.
Conclusion: Either prove swap-prefetch is broken, or get this merged quick.
Thanks!
--
Al
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