Re: [PATCH v6 07/19] mm: Put readahead pages in cache earlier

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 04:01:43PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> How about this instead? It uses the "for" loop fully and more naturally,
> and is easier to read. And it does the same thing:
> 
> static inline struct page *readahead_page(struct readahead_control *rac)
> {
> 	struct page *page;
> 
> 	if (!rac->_nr_pages)
> 		return NULL;
> 
> 	page = xa_load(&rac->mapping->i_pages, rac->_start);
> 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
> 	rac->_batch_count = hpage_nr_pages(page);
> 
> 	return page;
> }
> 
> static inline struct page *readahead_next(struct readahead_control *rac)
> {
> 	rac->_nr_pages -= rac->_batch_count;
> 	rac->_start += rac->_batch_count;
> 
> 	return readahead_page(rac);
> }
> 
> #define readahead_for_each(rac, page)			\
> 	for (page = readahead_page(rac); page != NULL;	\
> 	     page = readahead_page(rac))

I'll go you one better ... how about we do this instead:

static inline struct page *readahead_page(struct readahead_control *rac)
{
        struct page *page;

        BUG_ON(rac->_batch_count > rac->_nr_pages);
        rac->_nr_pages -= rac->_batch_count;
        rac->_index += rac->_batch_count;
        rac->_batch_count = 0;

        if (!rac->_nr_pages)
                return NULL;

        page = xa_load(&rac->mapping->i_pages, rac->_index);
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
        rac->_batch_count = hpage_nr_pages(page);

        return page;
}

#define readahead_for_each(rac, page)                                   \
        while ((page = readahead_page(rac)))

No more readahead_next() to forget to add to filesystems which don't use
the readahead_for_each() iterator.  Ahem.