Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 14:18:58 EST

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Daniel Phillips wrote:
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> a GFP flag that says 'fail if this looks hard to get'.

Something like that would provide a solution to the
readahead thrashing problem.

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