linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: Pass pvec directly to find_get

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Message-ID: <20200825132814.GO17456@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:28:14 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        William Kucharski <william.kucharski@...cle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: Pass pvec directly to find_get_entries

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 02:33:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 24-08-20 18:36:39, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > We already have functions in filemap which take a pagevec, eg
> > page_cache_delete_batch() and delete_from_page_cache_batch().
> 
> Right but those are really pretty internal helper functions so I don't
> think they form or strong precedence.

To be honest, I saw that as being the way forward for the page cache APIs.
If we're going to use a batching mechanism, it should be pagevecs, and
it should be built into the page cache interfaces rather than hanging
out off on the side.

> > So if we're going to merge the two functions, it seems more natural to
> > have it in filemap.c and called find_get_entries(), but I'm definitely
> > open to persuasion on this!
> 
> I agree that having non-trivial xarray code in mm/swap.c isn't attractive
> either. Dunno, I dislike the inconsistency between find_get_pages() and
> find_get_entries() you create but they aren't completely consistent anyway
> so I can live with that. Or we can just leave the pagevec_lookup_entries()
> wrapper and the API will stay consistent...

I was thinking about this some more [1] [2].  I think we can get to the
point where find_get_pages(), find_get_entries() and find_get_pages_tag()
(and all their variants) end up taking a pagevec as their last argument.

Also, I was thinking that all these names are wrong.  Really, they're
mapping_get_pages(), mapping_get_entries() and mapping_get_marked_pages().
So maybe I should move in that direction.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200824214841.17132-1-willy@infradead.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200824183424.4222-1-willy@infradead.org/