From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:58:13 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Lockless page cache test results Message-ID: <20060426185813.GA26680@infradead.org> References: <20060426135310.GB5083@suse.de> <20060426095511.0cc7a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060426174235.GC5002@suse.de> <20060426111054.2b4f1736.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060426111054.2b4f1736.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:10:54AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > But boy I wish find_get_pages_contig() was there > > for that. I think I'd prefer adding that instead of coding that logic in > > splice, it can get a little tricky. > > I guess it'd make sense - we haven't had a need for such a thing before. > > umm, something like... XFS would have a use for it, too. In fact XFS would prefer a find_or_create_pages-like thing which is the thing splice wants in the end aswell. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org