From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] first try for swap prefetch
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 22:37:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030411223718.4ba9c024.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304120705.26408.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> wrote:
>
> How can I get the file pointer for a buffered page with the information
> available in the kswapd (minly the page struct)??
You can't, really. There can be any number of file*'s pointing at an inode.
The pagefault handler will find it by find_vma(faulting_address)->vm_file.
Other codepaths use syscalls, and the user passed the file* in.
You can call page_cache_readahead() with a NULL file*. That'll mostly work
except for the odd filesytem like NFS which will oops. But it's good enough
for testing and development.
Or you could cook up a local file struct along the lines of
fs/nfsd/vfs.c:nfsd_read(), but I would not like to lead a young person
that way ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-12 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-10 17:47 [RFC] first try for swap prefetch Thomas Schlichter
2003-04-10 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-11 11:51 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-04-11 12:13 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-11 12:21 ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 12:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-11 13:29 ` John Bradford
2003-04-11 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-12 5:05 ` Thomas Schlichter
2003-04-12 5:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-04-17 16:02 ` [RFC] second try for swap prefetch (does Oops!) Thomas Schlichter
2003-04-11 16:57 [RFC] first try for swap prefetch Chuck Ebbert
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