From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] repair: kill B_IS_META flag
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:16:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013221646.GA31385@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD38744.3010702@sandeen.net>
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:45:08PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> B_IS_META is the inverse flag of B_IS_INODE which is not really obvious
>> from it's use. So just use !B_IS_INODE to make it more clear.
>>
>
> Logic-wise it's fine, but is this change really helpful? The comment says:
>
> /*
> * Test if bit 0 or 2 is set in the "priority tag" of the buffer to see if
> * the buffer is for an inode or other metadata.
> */
>
> so basically it distinguishes inodes from other metadata right.
Yes, with the key on other. In my books inodes are meta-data.
> B_IS_INODE is clear; B_IS_META is pretty clear, "!B_IS_INODE" seems muddy; so
> very many things are "not inodes" :)
In a buffercache (and in fact a whole application) that only deals with
metadata at all !B_IS_INODE meaning other metadata seems a lot more
clear to me than B_IS_META.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 17:55 [PATCH 00/14] repair memory usage reductions Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 01/14] repair: merge scanfunc_bno and scanfunc_cnt Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-12 16:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 22:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-13 23:36 ` Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 02/14] repair: reduce byte swap operations in scanfunc_allocbt Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-12 17:18 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 23:37 ` [PATCH 02/14] repair: reduce byte swap operations inscanfunc_allocbt Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 03/14] repair: kill B_IS_META flag Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-12 19:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 22:16 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-10-13 22:19 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 23:38 ` Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 04/14] repair: split up scanfunc_ino Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-12 20:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 22:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-13 22:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-10-13 22:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 05/14] repair: reduce byte swapping in scan_freelist Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-12 20:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 06/14] repair: use a btree instead of a radix tree for the prefetch queue Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 17:12 ` [PATCH 06/14] repair: use a btree instead of a radix tree for theprefetch queue Alex Elder
2009-11-12 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-12 23:46 ` Dave Chinner
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 07/14] repair: use single prefetch queue Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 17:48 ` Alex Elder
2009-11-12 10:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 08/14] repair: clean up prefetch tracing Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 17:53 ` Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 09/14] repair: track logical to physical block mapping more effeciently Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 19:06 ` [PATCH 09/14] repair: track logical to physical block mapping moreeffeciently Alex Elder
2009-11-12 10:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 10/14] repair: cleanup helpers for tracking block usage Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 19:33 ` Alex Elder
2009-11-12 10:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 11/14] repair: cleanup alloc/free/reset of the block usage tracking Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-21 20:22 ` [PATCH 11/14] repair: cleanup alloc/free/reset of the block usagetracking Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 12/14] repair: switch block usage bitmap to a btree Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-22 16:22 ` Alex Elder
2009-11-12 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 13/14] repair: optimize duplicate extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-22 16:41 ` Alex Elder
2009-09-02 17:55 ` [PATCH 14/14] repair: add missing locking in scanfunc_bmap Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-22 16:42 ` Alex Elder
2009-09-03 20:49 ` [PATCH 00/14] repair memory usage reductions Geoffrey Wehrman
2009-09-04 2:57 ` Dave Chinner
2009-09-04 13:37 ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2009-09-04 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-04 17:24 ` Michael Monnerie
2009-11-12 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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