linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 06/15] mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle non page aligned ranges

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1208211142510.2178@eggly.anvils>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:44:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] mm: teach truncate_inode_pages_range() to handle
 non page aligned ranges

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > I can see advantages to length, actually: it's often unclear
> > whether "end" is of the "last-of-this" or "start-of-next" variety;
> > in most of mm we are consistent in using end in the start-of-next
> > sense, but here truncate_inode_pages_range() itself has gone for
> > the last-of-this meaning.
> 
> I really do agree with this paragraph and this is why I like the "length"
> argument better. So if there is no objections I'll stick with it and
> fix the other things you've pointed out.

Okay
Hugh
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