From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cache instantiations Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 11:58:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1335866334.13683.121.camel@twins> References: <1335861713-4573-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1335861713-4573-5-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1335864640.13683.116.camel@twins> <20120501095543.GA2112@cmpxchg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel , Andrea Arcangeli , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , Minchan Kim , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Weiner Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120501095543.GA2112@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 11:55 +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > 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.=20 > >=20 > > That is rather icky.. >=20 > 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. OK, thanks! -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org