Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] mm/mmu_gather: Store and process pages in contig ranges

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Tue Aug 29 2023 - 12:00:04 EST


On 29/08/2023 15:24, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 03:19:29PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>>> You'll be glad to know I've factored out a nice little helper for that.
>>>
>>> OK, what's it called? This is just copied from release_pages() at the moment.
>>> Happy to use your helper in the refactored common helper.
>>
>> I'll send out those patches today.
>
> No, wait, I sent them on Friday.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230825135918.4164671-9-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> is the important one from your point of view. It's
> __page_cache_release() which is a little different from the current
> __page_cache_release()

Thanks! Given your series is marked RFC, I won't take the dependency for now;
I'd rather keep my series independent for review. We can race to mm-unstable and
I guess the loser gets to do the merge. ;-)