Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:01:17 -0800 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv6 08/37] filemap: handle huge pages in do_generic_file_read() |
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 06:33:42PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > No. pagecache_get_page() returns subpage. See description of the first > patch.
Your description says:
> We also change interface for page-cache lookup function: > > - functions that lookup for pages[1] would return subpages of THP > relevant for requested indexes; > > - functions that lookup for entries[2] would return one entry per-THP > and index will point to index of head page (basically, round down to > HPAGE_PMD_NR); > > This would provide balanced exposure of multi-order entires to the rest > of the kernel. > > [1] find_get_pages(), pagecache_get_page(), pagevec_lookup(), etc. > [2] find_get_entry(), find_get_entries(), pagevec_lookup_entries(), etc.
I'm saying:
> > We got this page from find_get_page(), which gets it from > > pagecache_get_page(), which gets it from find_get_entry() ... which > > (unless I'm lost in your patch series) returns the head page.
Am I guilty of debugging documentation rather than code?
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