Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2012 11:55:43 +0200 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cache instantiations |
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On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 11:30:40AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 10:41 +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > Every site that does a find_or_create()-style allocation is converted > > to pass this refault information to the page_cache_alloc() family of > > functions, which in turn passes it down to the page allocator via > > current->refault_distance. > > That is rather icky..
Fair enough, I just went with the easier solution to get things off the ground instead of dealing with adding an extra parameter to layers of config-dependent gfp API. I'll revisit this for v2.
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