linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] nfs: Teach NFS about swap cache pages

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Date:	Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:37:34 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] nfs: Teach NFS about swap cache pages

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 22:20 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Indiscriminate search and replace followed by a manual check for
> correctness. They might not be needed, but they're not wrong either.
> 
> Would you prefer I take them out?

It won't give us any massive performance optimisations, but it is nice
to be able to avoid that call to test_bit() whenever possible.

Cheers,
  Trond

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