Re: [PATCH] vm - swap prefetch v14

From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 13:02:36 EST


Hi Con,

your patch still contains a serious BUG :-)

On Wednesday 05 October 2005 14:57, Con Kolivas wrote:
> -The tunable to determine the amount of data retrieved per prefetch was added
> /proc/sys/vm/swap_prefetch
> is used to decide how many groups of 128kb to prefetch per 1 second interval
> and is set to 2 by default. It can be disabled by setting it to 0

swap_prefetch is not documented at Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

This simple text would suffice I think. Maybe comment about disabling it
for laptop usage.


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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