Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2018 14:49:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: infrastructure for page fault page caching |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:58:09 -0500 Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> wrote:
> We want to be able to cache the result of a previous loop of a page > fault in the case that we use VM_FAULT_RETRY,
Please explain here why we want to do that.
> so introduce > handle_mm_fault_cacheable that will take a struct vm_fault directly, add > a ->cached_page field to vm_fault, and add helpers to init/cleanup the > struct vm_fault. > > I've converted x86, other arch's can follow suit if they so wish, it's > relatively straightforward. >
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