Re: [PATCH 1/9] xfs: separate buffer indexing from block map

Ben Myers
2012-06-18T20:38:54Z

Hi Dave,

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:38:26PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> To support discontiguous buffers in the buffer cache, we need to
> separate the cache index variables from the I/O map. While this is
> currently a 1:1 mapping, discontiguous buffer support will break
> this relationship.
>
> However, for caching purposes, we can still treat them the same as a
> contiguous buffer - the block number of the first block and the
> length of the buffer - as that is still a unique representation.
> Also, the only way we will ever access the discontiguous regions of
> buffers is via bulding the complete buffer in the first place, so
> using the initial block number and entire buffer length is a sane
> way to index the buffers.
>
> Add a block mapping vector construct to the xfs_buf and use it in
> the places where we are doing IO instead of the current
> b_bn/b_length variables.

This patch does not apply even with Jan's patch. Merged it manually.

-Ben