From: Con Kolivas kprefetchd is a latency insensitive ultra low priority task. Set it to SCHED_BATCH to obtain the benefit of this scheduling policy hint. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/swap_prefetch.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/swap_prefetch.c~mm-implement-swap-prefetching-sched-batch mm/swap_prefetch.c --- devel/mm/swap_prefetch.c~mm-implement-swap-prefetching-sched-batch 2006-05-10 23:09:25.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/mm/swap_prefetch.c 2006-05-10 23:09:25.000000000 -0700 @@ -505,6 +505,9 @@ static enum trickle_return trickle_swap( static int kprefetchd(void *__unused) { + struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; + + sched_setscheduler(current, SCHED_BATCH, ¶m); set_user_nice(current, 19); /* Set ioprio to lowest if supported by i/o scheduler */ sys_ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, 0, IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE); _