Re: Patch for block write clustering

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:43:12 +0000 (GMT)


> Under Solaris, reading/writing (at least to swap) is done by
> a kernel thread. When we do that, it becomes way easier to
> program all sorts of complex sorting algoritms, but I wonder
> whether that would be worth it...

Its called kswapd 8)

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