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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	"open list:BTRFS FILE SYSTEM" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	naohiro.aota@wdc.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: don't hold an extra reference for redirtied buffers
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 06:16:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230531041626.GA32582@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230530155648.GB30110@twin.jikos.cz>

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 05:56:48PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > > I'd appreciate more eyes on this patch, with the indirections and
> > > writeback involved it's not clear to me that we don't need the list at
> > > all.
> > 
> > My suspicision is that Aoto-san wanted the extra safety of the extra
> > reference because he didn't want to trust or hadn't noticed the
> > extent_buffer_under_io() magic.  Auto-san, can you confirm or deny? :)
> 
> The number of patches above this one in the queue is increasing so it
> would get harder to remove it. I took another look and agree that
> regarding the references it's safe but would still like a confirmation.

As stated, I am very confident that this is safe based on all my
recent work with the extent_buffer code base.  I'd love to hear
from Aota, but there's not much more I can add here myself.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-31  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-08 14:58 buffer redirtying fixes and cleanup Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] btrfs: zero the buffer before marking it dirty in btrfs_redirty_list_add Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] btrfs: fix dirty_metadata_bytes for redirtied buffers Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: don't hold an extra reference " Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-09 22:57   ` David Sterba
2023-05-15  9:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-05-30 15:56       ` David Sterba
2023-05-31  4:16         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-05-31 15:04           ` Naohiro Aota
2023-06-05 15:58             ` David Sterba

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