From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] xfs: don't try to map blocks beyond i_size in writeback
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 08:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190201072520.GB14711@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131181108.GF36239@bfoster>
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 01:11:09PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> The code looks fine, but I don't see any more value in this code than
> the similar code down in xfs_iomap_write_allocate(). The comment implies
> this skips writeback for the rest of the file, but AFACT the higher
> level page->index code in xfs_do_writepage() already does that. All
> these checks do is skip the remaining blocks in the current page. When
> you consider that we're most likely sending an I/O in the latter case
> either way, I'm curious why we'd bother to keep this around at all.
It just seems a little pointless to take locks and do a lookup in the
extent tree. But I can try dropping it and re-run tests without it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-01 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-31 7:55 make delalloc conversion more robust and clear Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 01/11] FOLD: improve xfs_bmapi_delalloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:09 ` Brian Foster
2019-02-01 7:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 12:46 ` Brian Foster
2019-02-01 16:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: remove the io_type field from the writeback context and ioend Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:10 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: remove the s_maxbytes checks in xfs_map_blocks Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:10 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: don't try to map blocks beyond i_size in writeback Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:11 ` Brian Foster
2019-02-01 7:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-02-01 12:46 ` Brian Foster
2019-02-01 16:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: simplify the xfs_bmap_btree_to_extents calling conventions Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:11 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: factor out two helpers from xfs_bmapi_write Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 18:28 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: split XFS_BMAPI_DELALLOC handling " Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 19:28 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: move transaction handling to xfs_bmapi_convert_delalloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 19:28 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: move stat accounting " Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 19:29 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: move xfs_iomap_write_allocate to xfs_aops.c Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-31 19:31 ` Brian Foster
2019-01-31 7:55 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: retry COW fork delalloc conversion when no extent was found Christoph Hellwig
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