Re: [PATCH 01/17] mm/filemap: Rename generic_file_buffered_read subfunctions

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On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 08:27:00AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 06:42:56PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > The recent split of generic_file_buffered_read() created some very
> > long function names which are hard to distinguish from each other.
> > Rename as follows:
> > 
> > generic_file_buffered_read_readpage -> filemap_read_page
> > generic_file_buffered_read_pagenotuptodate -> filemap_update_page
> > generic_file_buffered_read_no_cached_page -> filemap_create_page
> > generic_file_buffered_read_get_pages -> filemap_get_pages
> 
> Find with me, although I think filemap_find_get_pages would be a better
> name for filemap_get_pages.

To me, 'find' means 'starting from this position, search forward in the
array for the next page', but we don't want to do that, we just want to
get a batch of pages starting _at_ this index.  Arguably it'd be better
named filemap_get_or_create_batch().




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