linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 14/19] ext4: Convert from readpages to readahead

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Message-ID: <20200219032934.GC1075@sol.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:29:34 -0800
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/19] ext4: Convert from readpages to readahead

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:46:05AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/readpage.c b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
> index c1769afbf799..e14841ade612 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/readpage.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
> @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
>   *
>   * This was originally taken from fs/mpage.c
>   *
> - * The intent is the ext4_mpage_readpages() function here is intended
> - * to replace mpage_readpages() in the general case, not just for
> + * The ext4_mpage_readahead() function here is intended to
> + * replace mpage_readahead() in the general case, not just for
>   * encrypted files.  It has some limitations (see below), where it
>   * will fall back to read_block_full_page(), but these limitations
>   * should only be hit when page_size != block_size.
> @@ -222,8 +222,7 @@ static inline loff_t ext4_readpage_limit(struct inode *inode)
>  }

This says ext4_mpage_readahead(), but it's actually still called
ext4_mpage_readpages().

- Eric