Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is pretty nasty.
Why? If the fs doesn't set PG_private or PG_fscache on any pages before
calling read_cache_pages(), there's no difference.
Furthermore, the differences only crop up in the error handling paths.
> I would suggest either to have the function return the number of pages that
> were added to pagecache,
Which helps how?
> or just open code it.
Well, I could give an alternative read_cache_pages(), I suppose, for just this
situation, but that means there are two parallel functions which then both
need to be maintained.
David
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