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

[Johannes Weiner]

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. 
> 
> That is rather icky..

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.
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