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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm/readahead: Make page_cache_ra_unbounded take a readahead_control
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 12:22:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903122218.42bd70d930cba998e3faf32c@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903140844.14194-4-willy@infradead.org>

On Thu,  3 Sep 2020 15:08:38 +0100 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> Define it in the callers instead of in page_cache_ra_unbounded().
> 

The changelogs for patches 2-9 are explaining what the patches do, but
not why they do it, Presumably there's some grand scheme in mind, but
it isn't being revealed to the reader!

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 14:08 [PATCH 0/9] Readahead patches for 5.9/5.10 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 1/9] Fix khugepaged's request size in collapse_file Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm/readahead: Add DEFINE_READAHEAD Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm/readahead: Make page_cache_ra_unbounded take a readahead_control Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 19:22   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2020-09-03 19:33     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm/readahead: Make do_page_cache_ra " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm/readahead: Make ondemand_readahead " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm/readahead: Pass readahead_control to force_page_cache_ra Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm/readahead: Add page_cache_sync_ra and page_cache_async_ra Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm/filemap: Fold ra_submit into do_sync_mmap_readahead Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-09-03 14:08 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm/readahead: Pass a file_ra_state into force_page_cache_ra Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)

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