linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 27/46] mm/writeback: Add __folio_mark

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Message-ID: <YNTQ6o0kxESisBri@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:37:30 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 27/46] mm/writeback: Add __folio_mark_dirty()

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:27:12AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 01:15:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > Turn __set_page_dirty() into a wrapper around __folio_mark_dirty() (which
> > can directly cast from page to folio because we know that set_page_dirty()
> > calls filesystems with the head page).  Convert account_page_dirtied()
> > into folio_account_dirtied() and account the number of pages in the folio.
> 
> Is it really worth micro-optimizing a transitional function like that?
> I'd rather eat the overhead of the compound_page() call over adding hacky
> casts like this.

Fair enough.  There's only three calls to it and one of them goes away
this series.