Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 7 Apr 2019 11:55:21 -0400 | | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix prefetchw of NULL page |
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 04:11:34PM +0800, Liu Xiang wrote: > In ext4_mpage_readpages(), if the parameter pages is not NULL, another > parameter page is NULL. At the first time prefetchw(&page->flags) > works on NULL. From second time, prefetchw(&page->flags) always works on > the last consumed page. This might do little improvment for handling > current page. So prefetchw() should be called while the page pointer > has just been updated.
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
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