Re: [PATCH v14 025/138] mm/writeback: Add folio_wait_writeback()

[David Howells]

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> wait_on_page_writeback_killable() only has one caller, so convert it to
> call folio_wait_writeback_killable().  For the wait_on_page_writeback()
> callers, add a compatibility wrapper around folio_wait_writeback().
> 
> Turning PageWriteback() into folio_test_writeback() eliminates a call
> to compound_head() which saves 8 bytes and 15 bytes in the two
> functions.  Unfortunately, that is more than offset by adding the
> wait_on_page_writeback compatibility wrapper for a net increase in text
> of 7 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>