Re: [PATCH 10/33] readahead: support functions

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Wu Fengguang wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_ADAPTIVE_READAHEAD
> +
> +/*
> + * The nature of read-ahead allows false tests to occur occasionally.
> + * Here we just do not bother to call get_page(), it's meaningless anyway.
> + */
> +static inline struct page *__find_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> +							pgoff_t offset)
> +{
> +	return radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, offset);
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct page *find_page(struct address_space *mapping,
> +							pgoff_t offset)
> +{
> +	struct page *page;
> +
> +	read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> +	page = __find_page(mapping, offset);
> +	read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> +	return page;
> +}
>  

Meh, this is just open-coded elsewhere in readahead.c; I'd either
open code it, or do a new patch to replace the existing callers.
find_page should be in mm/filemap.c, btw (or include/linux/pagemap.h).

> +
> +/*
> + * Move pages in danger (of thrashing) to the head of inactive_list.
> + * Not expected to happen frequently.
> + */
> +static unsigned long rescue_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages)
>  

Should probably be in mm/vmscan.c

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