linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 8/9] omfs: remove ->writepage

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Date:   Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:34:37 -0500
From:   Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-karma-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] omfs: remove ->writepage

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:29:01PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> ->writepage is a very inefficient method to write back data, and only
> used through write_cache_pages or a a fallback when no ->migrate_folio
> method is present.
> 
> Set ->migrate_folio to the generic buffer_head based helper, and remove
> the ->writepage implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Looks good,

Acked-by: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>

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