linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get

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Message-Id: <20160329142911.f2b069c8af06f649b86ec993@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:29:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:16:43 -0900 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com> wrote:

> Collapse redundant implementations of various gang pagecache lookup - this is
> also prep work for pagecache iterator work

Patch looks nice.  Unfortunately filemap.c has changed rather a lot
since 4.5.  Can you please redo the patch some time?

And a more informative changelog would be appropriate, although it's
all pretty obvious.  I don't know what "pagecache iterator work" is
and I doubt if many other readers do either, so some illumination there
wouldn't hurt.