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

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On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 03:57:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> What is the reason for this change?

I just got tired of code being hard to follow when I was trying to work on some
pagecache invalidation stuff.

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