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

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Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:24:26 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
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 2/19/20 7:01 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:52:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:41:17AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> #define readahead_for_each(rac, page)                                   \
>>>         while ((page = readahead_page(rac)))
>>>
>>> No more readahead_next() to forget to add to filesystems which don't use
>>> the readahead_for_each() iterator.  Ahem.


Yes, this looks very clean. And less error-prone, which I definitely
appreciate too. :)


>>
>> And then kill readahead_for_each and open code the above to make it
>> even more obvious?
> 
> Makes sense.
> 

Great!


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA