From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:23:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1105230919480.4182@sister.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523072705.GA3966@infradead.org>
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > I find both ways ugly, but no nice alternative: introducing a new method
> > when the known callers are already tied to tmpfs/ramfs seems over the top.
>
> Calling into shmem directly is the less ugly variant.
Okay, that's good, thanks.
> Long term killing
> that tmpfs abuse would be even better, but I already lost that fight
> when it was initially added.
I'd better match your restraint and not fan the flames now -
I believe we're on opposite sides, or at least orthogonal on that.
Hugh
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 16:23 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
2011-05-23 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-23 16:23 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
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