Re: [PATCH v7 21/24] iomap: Restructure iomap_readpages_actor

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 10:47:43 EST


On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:01:00PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> By putting the 'have we reached the end of the page' condition at the end
> of the loop instead of the beginning, we can remove the 'submit the last
> page' code from iomap_readpages(). Also check that iomap_readpage_actor()
> didn't return 0, which would lead to an endless loop.

I'm obviously biassed a I wrote the original code, but I find the new
very much harder to understand (not that the previous one was easy, this
is tricky code..).