Re: Lockless page cache test results

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:10:54AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But boy I wish find_get_pages_contig() was there
> > for that. I think I'd prefer adding that instead of coding that logic in
> > splice, it can get a little tricky.
> 
> I guess it'd make sense - we haven't had a need for such a thing before.
> 
> umm, something like...

XFS would have a use for it, too.  In fact XFS would prefer a
find_or_create_pages-like thing which is the thing splice wants in
the end aswell.

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