Re: clean up the generic pagecache read helpers

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On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 09:59:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> this series cleans up refactors our generic read from page cache helpers.
> The recent usage of the gang lookups helped a fair amount compared to
> the previous state, but left some of the old mess and actually introduced
> some new rather odd calling conventions as well.
> 
> Matthew: I think this should actually help with your THP work even if it
> means another rebase.  I was a bit surprised how quickly the gang lookups
> went in as well.

I think this is 90% the same direction I'm heading in.  I'll chime in
with a few suggestions on the individual patches.



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