linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v6 07/19] mm: Put readahead pages in cache earlier

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Message-ID: <20200219010209.GI24185@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:02:09 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/19] mm: Put readahead pages in cache earlier

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 04:01:43PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> How about this instead? It uses the "for" loop fully and more naturally,
> and is easier to read. And it does the same thing:
> 
> static inline struct page *readahead_page(struct readahead_control *rac)
> {
> 	struct page *page;
> 
> 	if (!rac->_nr_pages)
> 		return NULL;
> 
> 	page = xa_load(&rac->mapping->i_pages, rac->_start);
> 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
> 	rac->_batch_count = hpage_nr_pages(page);
> 
> 	return page;
> }
> 
> static inline struct page *readahead_next(struct readahead_control *rac)
> {
> 	rac->_nr_pages -= rac->_batch_count;
> 	rac->_start += rac->_batch_count;
> 
> 	return readahead_page(rac);
> }
> 
> #define readahead_for_each(rac, page)			\
> 	for (page = readahead_page(rac); page != NULL;	\
> 	     page = readahead_page(rac))

I'm assuming you mean 'page = readahead_next(rac)' on that second line.

If you keep reading all the way to the penultimate patch, it won't work
for iomap ... at least not in the same way.