On 9/8/05, Rahul Iyer <idlisambar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >But I m interested to know any other way of doing this .... As I don't > >know a good way :) > > > > > First up.... *****HACK ALERT ***** > > What if we remove kswapd's task_struct the wait queue it is on while it > is asleep... > from wakeup_kswapd(): > if (!waitqueue_active(&zone->zone_pgdat->kswapd_wait)) > return; > wake_up_interruptible(&zone->zone_pgdat->kswapd_wait); > > So, if the wait queue is empty, waitqueue_active() returns false, which > causes wakeup_kswapd() to do nothing... so this might work! > > what say? > Ya, that seems valid to me to be done and this makes kswapd do thing, but the main thing this mail thread creator wants to know and me too is how to replace the kswapd with our own thread not by hacking in the kernel !!! -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
