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From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/27] xfs: split out xfs inode operations into separate file
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:14:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130617181411.GE20932@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617155644.GA26043@infradead.org>

Hey Christoph,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:56:44AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:00:09PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > So what I really think needs to happen here first is similar to the
> > dir2 header file re-org. That is, a header file to define the
> > format, and a header file to define the in-kernel structures and
> > APIs....
> 
> Yes, I think we need to do this rather sooner than later.  In fact
> I'd feeling we need to tackle the whole header mess first before
> splitting the .c files.  Making sure the on-disk format is in one
> or just a few headers is the most important bit of that.
> 
> These days I'm actually of the opinion that we probably should be
> even more drastic about cutting the number of headers.  For the
> on disk format a xfs_format.h for all the regular on disk format and
> maybe and xfs_log_format.h should be more than enough.

I like the idea of having the entire on-disk format in just a few files.  It
would be a nice clean up.  I don't know if splitting the .c files needs to wait
on it though.

> But back to the _ops.c naming.  I really hate it and the best counter
> proposals I can come up with is to add a _common postfix to every file
> intended to be shared with userspace.

I don't understand what you don't like about the _ops.c naming... 

> Using a directly also would make
> sense, but for some reason Kbuild always had problems with modules built
> from multiple directories and I'm more than glad that we finally managed
> to get rid of the subdirectories.

but I really like the libxfs subdirectory idea.  Any idea if the Kbuild issues
are sorted out?

-Ben

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-17 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-12 10:22 [PATCH 00/27] xfs: current patch queue for 3.11 Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 01/27] xfs: update mount options documentation Dave Chinner
2013-06-13 13:34   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-14  0:40     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-14  0:53       ` Eric Sandeen
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 02/27] xfs: add pluging for bulkstat readahead Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 03/27] xfs: plug directory buffer readahead Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 04/27] xfs: don't use speculative prealloc for small files Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 16:10   ` Brian Foster
2013-06-13  0:50     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 05/27] xfs: don't do IO when creating an new inode Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 06/27] xfs: xfs_ifree doesn't need to modify the inode buffer Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 07/27] xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 08/27] xfs: Introduce an ordered buffer item Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 09/27] xfs: Inode create log items Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 10/27] xfs: Inode create transaction reservations Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 11/27] xfs: Inode create item recovery Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 12/27] xfs: Use inode create transaction Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 13/27] xfs: remove local fork format handling from xfs_bmapi_write() Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 14/27] xfs: move getdents code into it's own file Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 15/27] xfs: reshuffle dir2 definitions around for userspace Dave Chinner
2013-06-17 16:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-18 21:12     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-18 21:35       ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 16/27] xfs: split out attribute listing code into separate file Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 17/27] xfs: split out attribute fork truncation " Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 18/27] xfs: split out xfs inode operations " Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 14:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-13  1:14     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-13  8:00       ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-17 15:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-17 18:14           ` Ben Myers [this message]
2013-06-18 20:40             ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-18 21:37               ` Ben Myers
2013-06-18 22:02                 ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 19/27] xfs: consolidate xfs_vnodeops.c into xfs_inode_ops.c Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 13:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-13  1:39     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-17 16:02       ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-18 20:55         ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 20/27] xfs: move xfs_getbmap to xfs_extent_ops.c Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 21/27] xfs: introduce xfs_sb.c for sharing with libxfs Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 22/27] xfs: move xfs_trans_reservations to xfs_trans.h Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 23/27] xfs: sync minor header differences needed by userspace Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 24/27] xfs: move xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc() to xfs_aops.c Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 14:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-06-13  1:39     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 25/27] xfs: split out transaction reservation code Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 26/27] xfs: minor cleanups Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 10:22 ` [PATCH 27/27] xfs: fix issues that cause userspace warnings Dave Chinner
2013-06-17 19:32   ` Brian Foster
2013-06-18 21:42     ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 13:06 ` [PATCH 00/27] xfs: current patch queue for 3.11 Brian Foster
2013-06-13  1:40   ` Dave Chinner
2013-06-12 14:17 ` Ben Myers
2013-06-13  1:58   ` Dave Chinner

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