Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Real pagecache iterators

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 18:38:11 -0800 Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Introduce for_each_pagecache_page() and related macros, with the goal of
> replacing most/all uses of pagevec_lookup().
> 
> For the most part this shouldn't be a functional change. The one functional
> difference with the new macros is that they now take an @end parameter, so we're
> able to avoid grabbing pages in __find_get_pages() that we'll never use.
> 
> This patch only does some of the conversions, the ones I was able to easily test
> myself - the conversions are mechanical but tricky enough they generally warrent
> testing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c         | 261 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  include/linux/pagevec.h |  67 ++++++++++++-
>  mm/filemap.c            |  76 +++++++++-----
>  mm/page-writeback.c     | 148 +++++++++++----------------
>  mm/swap.c               |  33 +-----
>  mm/truncate.c           | 259 +++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  6 files changed, 380 insertions(+), 464 deletions(-)

hm, it's a lot of churn in sensitive areas for an 80 line saving.  What
do others think?