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

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

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Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-29 23:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 04:40 +0200
    [PATCH 1/2] mm: Refactor find_get_pages() & friends Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 04:40 +0200
      [PATCH 2/2] mm: Real pagecache iterators Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-01 04:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Real pagecache iterators Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-04-02 01:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Real pagecache iterators Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> - 2016-04-02 01:30 +0200

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