From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@gmail.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>,
Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/8 v2] ext4: initialize extent status tree
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:54:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926035448.GA14544@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120926033740.GC11468@thunk.org>
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:37:40PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:24:26AM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > > Can you let me know what changes you need to make? If it is to add
> > > new features or new sanity checks, does it make sense to simply make
> > > it as new commits to existing patch set? Or are there fundamental
> > > problems with the current set, that would be better to fix in the
> > > current set of commits? (Or is it just minor stylistic/spelling
> > > fixes?)
> > >
> > > Thanks!!
> >
> > In new patch set, there is three changes as beblow:
> >
> > 1. add a sanity check in ext4_evict_inode()
> > 2. fix a bug in ext4_find_delalloc_range(). This bug is reported by
> > xfstest #230 when we enable bigalloc feature.
> > 3. Add a new rwlock to protect extent status tree.
> >
> > So I think that we can only add a sanity check and fix the bigalloc bug,
> > and then apply this patch set because the changes are minor. For adding
> > a new lock to protect extent status tree, we can add this feature in a
> > new patch. If you think it is OK, I can generate a new patch set, do
> > some tests using xfstest, and submit it as soon as possible. What's
> > your opinion?
>
> Do you think you can get me the patches by the end of the week? If
> so, that should work.
Before this weekend, I can finish a new patch set with (1) adding a sanity
check and (2) fixing bigalloc bug. For adding a new lock, it is
unstable now. So this lock will not be included in this patch set.
Regards,
Zheng
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 6:05 [RFC][PATCH 0/8 v2] ext4: extent status tree (step 1) Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/8 v2] ext4: add two structures supporting extent status tree Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/8 v2] ext4: add operations on " Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 4:25 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 3:35 ` Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/8 v2] ext4: initialize " Zheng Liu
2012-09-19 18:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-19 19:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 4:45 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-25 12:42 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-25 20:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 2:09 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 2:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:24 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 3:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:54 ` Zheng Liu [this message]
2012-09-26 3:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-26 3:59 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-28 7:27 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-28 17:42 ` Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <CANWLp02F=qDXY_KbhAziPkBe8qGKV6oN3XtSdc5bWOkbDG684g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-09-29 3:07 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-29 13:26 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-30 14:00 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2012-09-29 13:24 ` Fwd: " Zheng Liu
2012-09-26 8:00 ` Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/8 v2] ext4: let ext4 maintain " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/8 v2] ext4: add some tracepoints in " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/8 v2] ext4: reimplement fiemap on " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/8 v2] ext4: reimplement ext4_find_delay_alloc_range " Zheng Liu
2012-08-22 6:05 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/8 v2] ext4: introduce lseek SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Zheng Liu
2012-09-20 14:41 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/8 v2] ext4: extent status tree (step 1) Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-21 1:51 ` Zheng Liu
2012-09-21 3:19 ` Yongqiang Yang
2012-09-22 0:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-09-24 3:16 ` Zheng Liu
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