On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:10:44PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > +``readahead``
> > + Called by the VM to read pages associated with the address_space
> > + object. The pages are consecutive in the page cache and are
> > + locked. The implementation should decrement the page refcount
> >
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:10:44PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45:54AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> > b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> > index 7d4d09dd5e6d..81ab30fbe45c 100644
> > ---
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45:54AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> index 7d4d09dd5e6d..81ab30fbe45c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
> @@ -706,6 +706,7
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:10:04AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:21:47PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45:54AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
> > >
> > > This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
On 2/17/20 10:45 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
>
> This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
> - Return void instead of an ignored error code.
> - Pages are already in the page cache when ->readahead is called.
> - Implementation looks up the pages in the
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:21:47PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45:54AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
> >
> > This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
> > - Return void instead of an ignored error code.
> > - Pages are
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45:54AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
>
> This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
> - Return void instead of an ignored error code.
> - Pages are already in the page cache when ->readahead is called.
Might read better as:
From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)"
This replaces ->readpages with a saner interface:
- Return void instead of an ignored error code.
- Pages are already in the page cache when ->readahead is called.
- Implementation looks up the pages in the page cache instead of
having them passed in a
