linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache

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Message-ID: <1774227.1669245127@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 23:12:07 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@...il.com>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Well, the patches look superficially cleaner to me, at least. That
> "doesn't seem to be necessary" makes me a bit worried,

I meant that it doesn't cause a splat to appear in dmesg saying that an
unexpected flag was left set.

David