[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH V3 0/8] Cleancache: overview

[Minchan Kim]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Nitin Gupta <ngupta at vflare.org> wrote:
>
> 2. I think change in btrfs can be avoided by moving cleancache_get_page()
> from do_mpage_reapage() to filemap_fault() and this should work for all
> filesystems. See:
>
> handle_pte_fault() -> do_(non)linear_fault() -> __do_fault()
>                                                -> vma->vm_ops->fault()
>
> which is defined as filemap_fault() for all filesystems. If some future
> filesystem uses its own custom function (why?) then it will have to arrange for
> call to cleancache_get_page(), if it wants this feature.


filemap fault works only in case of file-backed page which is mapped
but don't work not-mapped cache page.  So we could miss cache page by
read system call if we move it into filemap_fault.


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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim