From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Adding an ugliness in __read_cache_page()?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 17:03:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1105221702150.1427@sister.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimpi2vhx3NzR71G640HXXn-keCoqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 22 May 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Would it be better to make i915 and ttm call shmem_read_cache_page()
> > directly? Perhaps removing the then unused read_cache_page_gfp(), or
> > perhaps not: may still be needed for i915 and ttm on tiny !SHMEM ramfs.
>
> I would certainly prefer the "make i915 and ttm call
> shmem_read_cache_page directly" approach over putting some nasty hack
> in __read_cache_page.
Thank you: I'll go that way.
Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-22 22:25 Hugh Dickins
2011-05-22 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-23 0:03 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2011-05-23 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-23 16:23 ` Hugh Dickins
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