Re: [PATCH] swap write clustering

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 06:10:26 EST


Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Basically this new swap_writepage function looks for dirty swapcache pages
> which may be contiguous (reverse and forward searching wrt to the physical
> address of the page being passed to swap_writepage) and builds a page list
> which is written "at once".
>
> The patch is against test13pre3.
>
> Comments are welcome. (especially about the __find_page_nolock
> modification)
>

Have you any benchmarks for this?
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