The find_or_create function calls alloc_page with the gfp_mask passed to it which is derived from the mappings gfp mask. So the allocation flags are right (assuming my bugfix to fs/buffer.c is applied). However, we call a alloc_page instead of page_cache_alloc in find_or_create_page. This means that the page cache allocation will not obey cpuset memory spreading. We really need to call __page_cache_alloc there. Also stick a comment in there explaining how the allocation mask passed to find_or_create_page needs to be handled. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- mm/filemap.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/mm/filemap.c 2007-04-23 15:37:27.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c 2007-04-23 15:38:09.000000000 -0700 @@ -648,7 +648,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_lock_page); * find_or_create_page - locate or add a pagecache page * @mapping: the page's address_space * @index: the page's index into the mapping - * @gfp_mask: page allocation mode + * @gfp_mask: page allocation mode. This must be derived from the + * allocation flags of the mapping! * * Locates a page in the pagecache. If the page is not present, a new page * is allocated using @gfp_mask and is added to the pagecache and to the VM's @@ -670,7 +671,8 @@ repeat: page = find_lock_page(mapping, index); if (!page) { if (!cached_page) { - cached_page = alloc_page(gfp_mask); + cached_page = + __page_cache_alloc(gfp_mask); if (!cached_page) return NULL; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/