linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 05/31] ext4: Convert ext4

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Message-ID: <20230314222646.GT860405@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:26:46 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>
Cc:     "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/31] ext4: Convert ext4_writepage() to use a folio

On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 12:15:13AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > Prepare for multi-page folios and save some instructions by converting
> > to the folio API.
> 
> Mostly a straight forward change. The changes looks good to me.
> Please feel free to add -
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
> 
> In later few patches I see ext4_readpage converted to ext4_read_folio().
> I think the reason why we have not changed ext4_writepage() to
> ext4_write_folio() is because we anyway would like to get rid of
> ->writepage ops eventually in future, so no point.
> I think there is even patch series from Jan which tries to kill
> ext4_writepage() completely.

Indeed, Jan's patch series[1] is about to land in the ext4 tree, and
that's going to remove ext4_writepages.  The main reason why this
hadn't landed yet was due to some conflicts with some other folio
changes, so you should be able to drop this patch when you rebase this
patch series.

					- Ted

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230228051319.4085470-1-tytso@mit.edu/