Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, 22 February 2007 00:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:36:22 +0100
> Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz> wrote:
> 
> > > From: Andrew Morton
> > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.raid,gmane.linux.kernel
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 006 of 6] md: Add support for reshape of a raid6
> > > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:48:06 -0800
> > 
> > Hallo.
> > 
> > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:35:16 +1100
> > > NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > >> +		for (i = conf->raid_disks ; i-- ;  ) {
> > >
> > > That statement should be dragged out, shot, stomped on then ceremonially
> > > incinerated.
> > >
> > > What's wrong with doing
> > >
> > > 	for (i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) {
> > >
> > > in a manner which can be understood without alcoholic fortification?
> > >
> > > ho hum.
> > 
> > In case someone likes to do job, GCC usually ought to do, i would
> > suggest something like this instead:
> > 
> >        if (expanded && test_bit(STRIPE_EXPANDING, &sh->state)) {
> >                /* Need to write out all blocks after computing P&Q */
> > -               sh->disks = conf->raid_disks;
> > +	       	i = conf->raid_disks;
> > +		sh->disks = i;
> > -               sh->pd_idx = stripe_to_pdidx(sh->sector, conf,
> > -                                            conf->raid_disks);
> > +               sh->pd_idx = stripe_to_pdidx(sh->sector, conf, i);
> > 
> >                compute_parity6(sh, RECONSTRUCT_WRITE);
> > -               for (i = conf->raid_disks ; i-- ;  ) {
> > +		do {
> >                        set_bit(R5_LOCKED, &sh->dev[i].flags);
> >                        locked++;
> >                        set_bit(R5_Wantwrite, &sh->dev[i].flags);
> > -               }
> > +		} while (--i);
> > 
> >                clear_bit(STRIPE_EXPANDING, &sh->state);
> >        } else if (expanded) {
> > 
> > In any case this is subject of scripts/bloat-o-meter.
> 
> This:
> 
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c~a
> +++ a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> @@ -2364,7 +2364,7 @@ static void handle_stripe6(struct stripe
>  		sh->pd_idx = stripe_to_pdidx(sh->sector, conf,
>  					     conf->raid_disks);
>  		compute_parity6(sh, RECONSTRUCT_WRITE);
> -		for (i = conf->raid_disks ; i-- ;  ) {
> +		for (i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; ++) {

I guess it should be 

+		for (i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++)

>  			set_bit(R5_LOCKED, &sh->dev[i].flags);
>  			locked++;
>  			set_bit(R5_Wantwrite, &sh->dev[i].flags);
> _