Re: [PATCH] vm - swap_prefetch-15

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 07:26:40 EST


On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Makes sense but it is only used in the CONFIG_SWAP_PREFETCH case so it would
> end up as a static inline in swap.h to avoid ending being #ifdefed in
> page_alloc.c. Do you think that's preferable to having it in
> swap_prefetch.c ?

But then you would still have to open up buffered_rmqueue() and
zone_statistics() to everyone, no? How about you implement a new gfp flag
__GFP_NEVER_RECLAIM similar to __GFP_NORECLAIM instead so you don't have
to duplicate __page_alloc()?

Pekka
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