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Message-ID: <20200320154947.GA851@sol.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:49:47 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] Fwd: Add page_cache_readahead_unbounded
Hi Matthew,
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 07:29:32AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I'm a little disappointed to have received no feedback on these patches
> from those who were involved with creating the ugly situation in the
> first place.
>
> There are other ext4/f2fs patches in this patch series for which it
> would also be nice to get reviewed-by tags.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> -----
>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 07:22:19 -0700
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
> 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, Christoph
> Hellwig <hch@....de>, William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v9 13/25] mm: Add page_cache_readahead_unbounded
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.1
>
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
>
> ext4 and f2fs have duplicated the guts of the readahead code so
> they can read past i_size. Instead, separate out the guts of the
> readahead code so they can call it directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>
I actually did look at this patch last month and it looked fine. Thanks for
doing this.
To be clear, we'd be fine with maintaining filesystem-specific code that does
the setup necessary to call ext4_mpage_readpages() and f2fs_mpage_readpages()
properly. And that was the original intent, so that nothing would leak into the
VFS. But I understand that the new readahead calling convention is different
and a bit more complex, and it's annoying to have multiple callers. So if
page_cache_readahead_unbounded() makes things easier for you, it's fine with me.
I'll take a closer look at your v9 series today and provide Reviewed-by on this
patch and others. Sorry for not doing so earlier.
Thanks!
- Eric
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