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From: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: dsterba@suse.cz, 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: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 17:10:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530DAF6D.5090007@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140222002337.GO16073@twin.jikos.cz>

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.)

Thanks
Miao

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26  9:11 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 [this message]
2014-02-27 17:02       ` David Sterba
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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