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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm: Add an 'end' parameter to find_get_entries
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:33:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200821163306.GW17456@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200821160759.GE3432@quack2.suse.cz>

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 06:07:59PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 19-08-20 16:05:51, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > This simplifies the callers and leads to a more efficient implementation
> > since the XArray has this functionality already.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> 
> The patch looks good to me. Just I'd note that you could drop some:
> 
> 	if (index >= end)
> 		break;
> 
> checks in shmem_undo_range() as well.

Oh yes, missed a couple ;-)  Thanks, I'll add.

> In the past I was considering moving find_get_entries() to the same API as
> find_get_pages_range() has (which is essentially what you do now, but I
> also had 'start' to be a pgoff_t * so that we can return there where the
> iteration ended in the range). But in the end I've decided the churn is not
> worth the few removed lines and didn't push the patch in the end. What you
> did in this patch seems to be a reasonable middle-ground :)

I did look at that, but since we're returning the indices, we don't _need_
to update the index here.

I have some other ideas for this family of interfaces, but I'm trying
to get the THP work off my plate before getting distracted by that ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-19 15:05 [PATCH 0/7] Overhaul find_get_entries and pagevec_lookup_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm: Use pagevec_lookup in shmem_unlock_mapping Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-21 15:53   ` Jan Kara
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm: Rewrite shmem_seek_hole_data Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-20 16:45   ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-20 19:04     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm: Add an 'end' parameter to find_get_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-20 16:47   ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-21 16:07   ` Jan Kara
2020-08-21 16:33     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-08-21 18:06       ` Jan Kara
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm: Add an 'end' parameter to pagevec_lookup_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-24 16:09   ` Jan Kara
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: Remove nr_entries parameter from pagevec_lookup_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-24 16:10   ` Jan Kara
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: Pass pvec directly to find_get_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-24 16:16   ` Jan Kara
2020-08-24 17:36     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-25 12:33       ` Jan Kara
2020-08-25 13:28         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-08-25 15:24           ` Jan Kara
2020-08-25 16:23           ` Johannes Weiner
2020-08-19 15:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: Remove pagevec_lookup_entries Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2020-08-22  2:34 ` [PATCH 0/7] Overhaul find_get_entries and pagevec_lookup_entries William Kucharski

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