linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:35:10 -0800
From:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:29:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:16:43 -0900 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Collapse redundant implementations of various gang pagecache lookup - this is
> > also prep work for pagecache iterator work
> 
> Patch looks nice.  Unfortunately filemap.c has changed rather a lot
> since 4.5.  Can you please redo the patch some time?
> 
> And a more informative changelog would be appropriate, although it's
> all pretty obvious.  I don't know what "pagecache iterator work" is
> and I doubt if many other readers do either, so some illumination there
> wouldn't hurt.

Can do - sending you the pagecache iterator patch too:

Kent Overstreet (2):
  mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends
  mm: Real pagecache iterators

 fs/ext4/inode.c            | 261 +++++++++++++------------------
 include/linux/pagemap.h    | 142 +++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/pagevec.h    |  67 +++++++-
 include/linux/radix-tree.h |  49 ++----
 mm/filemap.c               | 376 ++++++++++-----------------------------------
 mm/page-writeback.c        | 148 ++++++++----------
 mm/swap.c                  |  33 +---
 mm/truncate.c              | 259 ++++++++++++-------------------
 8 files changed, 546 insertions(+), 789 deletions(-)

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