Re: [patch 4/9] Guest page hinting: volatile swap cache.

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 11:34:25 EST


On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:04 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_get_page_nodiscard);
> > +
> > +#endif
>
> Is it worth having another full copy of find_get_page()? What about a
> "nodiscard" argument?

That is a hard call to make. I really tried hard to avoid adding any
overhead to a system running without the feature.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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