Re: [RFC PATCH 10/11] xfs: update the finobt on inode free

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:39:18AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On 09/05/2013 08:28 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:19:12PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> >> On 09/04/2013 10:54 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:25:07PM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> ...
> >>
> >> I think I'm parsing you after having another look at the code.
> >> xfs_inobt_lookup() remains as is and is potentially used from
> >> xfs_inobt_insert(). xfs_inobt_insert_rec() is introduced to set the
> >> cursor fields and do the insert and is used here and from
> >> xfs_inobt_insert().
> > 
> > Effectively. xfs_inobt_insert() becomes:
> > 
> > 	for (each inode chunk) {
> > 		xfs_inobt_lookup(cur, startino)
> > 		xfs_inobt_insert_rec(cur, startino, free, free_count)
> > 	}
> > 
> > And this code becomes:
> > 
> > 	xfs_inobt_lookup(cur, startino);
> > 	if (!found) {
> > 		if (free_count == 1)
> > 			xfs_inobt_insert_rec(cur, startino, free, free_count)
> > 		else
> > 			CORRUPTION
> > 		goto out;
> > 	}
> > 
> >> At that point, this looks close to xfs_inobt_insert(), but I think using
> >> that here would introduce a duplicate lookup.
> > 
> > Yes, it would. I think just using helpers like this is sufficient
> > for the two different cases, especially as xfs_inobt_insert() needs
> > to be able to handle multiple chunk insertion and we don't have that
> > here...
> > 
> 
> Ok, that was my thinking as well.
> 
> >> Regardless, we'll see what
> >> the whole thing looks like at that point. Thanks for the reviews. :)
> > 
> > No worries. BTW, can you post your rudimentary userspace support so
> > we can run tests that use this code, too?
> > 
> 
> Sure. My xfsprogs branch currently is the application of a slightly
> older version of this set (pre-cleanups I made to make this post-worthy)
> with some hacks to make it apply/compile and a few other patches on top
> of that for mkfs, xfs_db and xfs_repair to work through some basic
> things I ran into when running xfstests.
> 
> Would you prefer I drop the whole thing on the list?

Drop it on the list, maybe just a as tarball rather than a patchset
if it's not ready for review yet.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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