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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Peng Tao <bergwolf@primarydata.com>
Cc: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@primarydata.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: fix subtle change in COMMIT behavior
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:02:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141113110244.GA25709@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKVebiX=mRJ7Psc8+FigNLRgGB8vH84vcKdv173HvuT20+eh=w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 09:03:53AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> > but should be contiguous (as enforced by nfs_flush_incompatible).
> >
> The idea is to get an estimation on the length of layout that client
> wants to use. So even if a single byte is used by client, client would
> want to ask for a layout that covers the whole page.

That code is very non-obvious and could use a few more comments.

I think the NFS_I(inode)->npages should be replaced with
inode->i_mapping->nrpages which counts the number of page cache pages.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-13 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-12 17:08 [PATCH] NFS: fix subtle change in COMMIT behavior Weston Andros Adamson
2014-11-13  1:03 ` Peng Tao
2014-11-13 11:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-11-13 13:38     ` Weston Andros Adamson
2014-11-13 13:38       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-14  7:04       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-14 15:02         ` Weston Andros Adamson
2014-11-24 22:04         ` Trond Myklebust
2014-11-24 23:47           ` Tom Haynes
2014-11-25 13:06           ` Christoph Hellwig

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