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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cache
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 11:30:40 +0200
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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.=20

That is rather icky..

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Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cache
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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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..