Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 May 2011 03:27:05 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Adding an ugliness in __read_cache_page()? |
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On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I find both ways ugly, but no nice alternative: introducing a new method > when the known callers are already tied to tmpfs/ramfs seems over the top.
Calling into shmem directly is the less ugly variant. Long term killing that tmpfs abuse would be even better, but I already lost that fight when it was initially added.
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