Re: [patch 4/5] mm + fs: provide refault distance to page cacheinstantiations

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 01 2012 - 05:31:03 EST


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..
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