Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:16:31 +0000
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 05/10] mm: filemap: move radix tree hole searching here
Message-ID: <20140212111631.GS6732@suse.de>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:53:37PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The radix tree hole searching code is only used for page cache, for
> example the readahead code trying to get a a picture of the area
> surrounding a fault.
> 
> It sufficed to rely on the radix tree definition of holes, which is
> "empty tree slot".  But this is about to change, though, as shadow
> page descriptors will be stored in the page cache after the actual
> pages get evicted from memory.
> 
> Move the functions over to mm/filemap.c and make them native page
> cache operations, where they can later be adapted to handle the new
> definition of "page cache hole".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

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