| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v14 079/138] mm/filemap: Add readahead_folio() | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 2021 22:34:50 +0100 |
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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> The pointers stored in the page cache are folios, by definition. > This change comes with a behaviour change -- callers of readahead_folio() > are no longer required to put the page reference themselves. This matches > how readpage works, rather than matching how readpages used to work. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
For some of the things I'm looking at, this is actually inconvenient, but I guess I can take an extra ref if I need it.
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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