Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] btrfs: remove buffer heads form superblock handling

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 01:15:30PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> > Sure but with hch's proposed change to using read_cache_page_gfp() this 
> > doesn't make too much sense anymore at least for the read path.
> > 
> > Maybe "use page cache for superblock reading"?
> 
> That works too. We might need a new iteration that summarizes up all the
> feedback so far, so we have same code to refer to.

Per my question on the second patch:  why even use the page cache at
all.  btrfs already caches the value outside the pagecache, so why
even bother with the page cache overhead?



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