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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] repair: switch block usage bitmap to a btree
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:25:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091112102535.GA5154@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1AB9A794DBDDF54A8A81BE2296F7BDFE83ADFE@cf--amer001e--3.americas.sgi.com>

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:22:42AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> I have a few minor things I would like to see changed at some
> point, but nothing looks obviously incorrect so I'll wait and
> post a patch against this once it's committed.
> 
> Here are a couple other general thoughts:
> - One minor concern is that the btree code has cases in which
>   the peek routines don't work (when the keys_valid flag in the
>   btree root is zero) and this code doesn't check for that.
>   I'll just assume for now that never happens here.

It should not happen, but yes - making this explicit would be good.

> - The bitfield code used for the real-time volume map is
>   generally useful and could be separated into its own module.

Not sure.  It's really a crufty leftover.  It should probably also use
a btree instead, but I fear any effort spent on the RT subvolume is
pretty much wasted anyway.

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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
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 [this message]
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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