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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfs: Introduce writeback context for writepages
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:48:50 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160209214850.GE14668@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160209133941.GA13357@infradead.org>

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 05:39:41AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Removing xfs_cancel_ioend and replacing it with the start and cancel
> writeback scheme that we currently only use for
> xfs_setfilesize_trans_alloc failures actually seems to be the biggest
> change in this patch and is entirely undocumented.  Any chance you
> could split this into a prep patch and properly document it?

I can try.

> > -
> > -	if (!ioend || need_ioend || type != ioend->io_type) {
> > -		xfs_ioend_t	*previous = *result;
> > -
> > -		ioend = xfs_alloc_ioend(inode, type);
> > -		ioend->io_offset = offset;
> > -		ioend->io_buffer_head = bh;
> > -		ioend->io_buffer_tail = bh;
> > -		if (previous)
> > -			previous->io_list = ioend;
> > -		*result = ioend;
> > +	if (!wpc->ioend || wpc->io_type != wpc->ioend->io_type ||
> > +	    bh->b_blocknr != wpc->last_block + 1) {
> 
> We now start a new ioend if the blocks aren't contiguous, which seems
> reasonable.  But this also means the similar check in xfs_submit_ioend
> should be removed at the same time.

OK.

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-08  5:44 [PATCH 0/5 v3] xfs: get rid of xfs_cluster_write() Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  5:44 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: remove nonblocking mode from xfs_vm_writepage Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  5:44 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs: Introduce writeback context for writepages Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 13:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 21:48     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-02-09 23:16       ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 14:22   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-09 21:51     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  5:44 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs: xfs_cluster_write is redundant Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 13:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08  5:44 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: factor mapping out of xfs_do_writepage Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 13:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08  5:44 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: don't chain ioends during writepage submission Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 13:49   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09 21:52     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-09 14:23   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-09 21:59     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-10 13:18       ` Brian Foster
2016-02-10 21:09         ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-11 12:24           ` Brian Foster

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