Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:01:33 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 19/19] writeback: simplify writeback iteration |
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 07:50:25AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote: > The implied field initialization via !folio feels a little wonky to me > just because it's not clear from the client code that both fields must > be initialized. Even though the interface is simpler, I wonder if it's > still worth having a dumb/macro type init function that at least does > the batch and error field initialization. > > Or on second thought maybe having writeback_iter() reset *error as well > on folio == NULL might be a little cleaner without changing the > interface....
I like that second idea. An initialization helper I could live with, but if only folio needs a defined state, that seems superflous.
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