linux-kernel - Re: Adding an ugliness in __read_cache

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Message-ID: <20110523072705.GA3966@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 03:27:05 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: Adding an ugliness in __read_cache_page()?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 03:25:31PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I find both ways ugly, but no nice alternative: introducing a new method
> when the known callers are already tied to tmpfs/ramfs seems over the top.

Calling into shmem directly is the less ugly variant.  Long term killing
that tmpfs abuse would be even better, but I already lost that fight
when it was initially added.

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