Another thread discussed potentially merging the swap prefetch patch into the mainline Linux kernel. Con Kolivas [story] started the thread saying "I fixed all bugs I could find and improved it as much as I could last kernel cycle. Put me and the users out of our misery and merge it now or delete it forever please." Replying to an off-list message, Andrew Morton asked users of the patch, "please provide us more details on your usage and testing of that code. Amount of memory, workload, observed results, etc?"

Nick Piggin [interview] noted that he's still interested in better understanding and possibly fixing what's happening with swap and reclaim on the systems reporting a benefit from the swap-prefetch patch. He went on to note, "regarding swap prefetching. I'm not going to argue for or against it anymore because I have really stopped following where it is up to, for now. If the code and the results meet the standard that Andrew wants then I don't particularly mind if he merges it. It would be nice if some of you guys would still report and test problems with reclaim when prefetching is turned off -- I have never encountered the morning after sluggishness (although I don't doubt for a minute that it is a problem for some)." Ingo Molnar followed up to these coments acking the patch, "I have tested it and have read the code, and it looks fine to me. (i've reported my test results elsewhere already [story]) We should include this in v2.6.23."