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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Peng Zhang <zhangpeng362@huawei.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, sunnanyong@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/9] mm/page_io: convert bio_first_page_all() to bio_first_folio_all()
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:34:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLjHbNNM8eyeaTpH@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZLfwfhMkegLUav/B@casper.infradead.org>

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 03:17:34PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 05:58:42PM +0800, Peng Zhang wrote:
> > From: ZhangPeng <zhangpeng362@huawei.com>
> > 
> > Convert bio_first_page_all() to bio_first_folio_all() to return a
> > folio, which makes it easier to use.
> 
> This wasn't what I was suggesting.  Indeed, this may introduce bugs.
> I was suggesting adding bio_first_folio_all() so that it can be used
> by code that knows this is what it wants.

To add another opinion:  I'd really like to see bio_first_page_all
go away.  The right way to iterate over the pages is an iterator.
If we really want to micro-opimize not setting up an iteator because
we know we have exactly one page/folio just stash it into bi_private.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-20  5:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-19  9:58 [PATCH v2 0/9] Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a folio Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/page_io: remove unneeded ClearPageUptodate() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] mm/page_io: remove unneeded SetPageError() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] mm/page_io: convert bio_first_page_all() to bio_first_folio_all() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19 14:17   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-07-20  5:34     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-07-20  9:31     ` zhangpeng (AS)
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] mm/page_io: use a folio in __end_swap_bio_read() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] mm/page_io: use a folio in sio_read_complete() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] mm/page_io: use a folio in swap_writepage_bdev_sync() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] mm/page_io: use a folio in swap_writepage_bdev_async() Peng Zhang
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] mm/page_io: convert count_swpout_vm_event() to take in a folio Peng Zhang
2023-07-19 14:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-07-20  9:31     ` zhangpeng (AS)
2023-07-19  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] mm/page_io: convert bio_associate_blkg_from_page() " Peng Zhang

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