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

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Date:   Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:01:03 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>, 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 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.
> 
> And then kill readahead_for_each and open code the above to make it
> even more obvious?

Makes sense.