Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mm: Make more use of readahead_control

Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-01T16:48:49Z

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 05:28:15PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Here's a set of patches to expand the use of the readahead_control struct,
> essentially from do_sync_mmap_readahead() down.

I like this.

> Note that I've been
> passing the number of pages to read in rac->_nr_pages, and then saving it
> and changing it certain points, e.g. page_cache_readahead_unbounded().

I do not like this. You're essentially mutating the meaning of _nr_pages
as the ractl moves down the stack, and that's going to lead to bugs.
I'd keep it as a separate argument.

> Also there's an apparent minor bug in khugepaged.c that I've included a
> patch for: page_cache_sync_readahead() looks to be given the wrong size in
> collapse_file().

This needs to go in as an independent fix. But you didn't actually cc Song.