From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] Btrfs: use bitfield instead of integer data type for the some variants in btrfs_root
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:02:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140227170207.GJ16073@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <530DAF6D.5090007@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:10:05PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 01:23:37 +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:08:54PM +0800, Miao Xie wrote:
> >> @@ -1352,13 +1347,15 @@ static struct btrfs_root *alloc_log_tree(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
> >> root->root_key.objectid = BTRFS_TREE_LOG_OBJECTID;
> >> root->root_key.type = BTRFS_ROOT_ITEM_KEY;
> >> root->root_key.offset = BTRFS_TREE_LOG_OBJECTID;
> >> +
> >> /*
> >> + * DON'T set REF_COWS for log trees
> >> + *
> >> * log trees do not get reference counted because they go away
> >> * before a real commit is actually done. They do store pointers
> >> * to file data extents, and those reference counts still get
> >> * updated (along with back refs to the log tree).
> >> */
> >> - root->ref_cows = 0;
> >
> > This looks like a bugfix hidden in a cleanup patch. If it is standalone
> > and not related to changes in this patchset, it makes sense to send it
> > separately (and possibly CC stable).
>
> It is a cleanup because we have set it to 0 before.
>
> I add this comment just to remind the other developer that don't set this flag.
> (The old one is not so striking, I think.)
Ox, thanks for explanation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-20 10:08 [PATCH 1/9] Btrfs: use ACCESS_ONCE to prevent the optimize accesses to ->last_trans_log_full_commit Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] Btrfs: fix the skipped transaction commit during the file sync Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 3/9] Btrfs: don't start the log transaction if the log tree init fails Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 4/9] Btrfs: use bitfield instead of integer data type for the some variants in btrfs_root Miao Xie
2014-02-22 0:23 ` David Sterba
2014-02-26 9:10 ` Miao Xie
2014-02-27 17:02 ` David Sterba [this message]
2014-03-07 23:54 ` Josef Bacik
2014-03-08 0:00 ` Josef Bacik
2014-03-10 1:16 ` Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 5/9] Btrfs: remove unnecessary memory barrier in btrfs_sync_log() Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 6/9] Btrfs: use signed integer instead of unsigned long integer for log transid Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 7/9] Btrfs: stop joining the log transaction if sync log fails Miao Xie
2014-02-22 0:27 ` David Sterba
2014-02-26 8:51 ` Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 8/9] Btrfs: fix skipped error handle when log sync failed Miao Xie
2014-02-20 10:08 ` [PATCH 9/9] Btrfs: just wait or commit our own log sub-transaction Miao Xie
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