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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] xfs: hoist out xfs_resizefs_init_new_ags()
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:32:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111173249.GC848188@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210108190919.623672-4-hsiangkao@redhat.com>

> +	xfs_mount_t		*mp,

Please use the struct type here.

> +	/*
> +	 * Write new AG headers to disk. Non-transactional, but need to be
> +	 * written and completed prior to the growfs transaction being logged.
> +	 * To do this, we use a delayed write buffer list and wait for
> +	 * submission and IO completion of the list as a whole. This allows the
> +	 * IO subsystem to merge all the AG headers in a single AG into a single
> +	 * IO and hide most of the latency of the IO from us.
> +	 *
> +	 * This also means that if we get an error whilst building the buffer
> +	 * list to write, we can cancel the entire list without having written
> +	 * anything.
> +	 */

Maybe move the comment on top of the whole function, as it really
explains what the function does.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-08 19:09 [PATCH v3 0/4] xfs: support shrinking free space in the last AG Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 19:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] xfs: rename `new' to `delta' in xfs_growfs_data_private() Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 21:23   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-08 19:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] xfs: get rid of xfs_growfs_{data,log}_t Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 21:21   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-08 21:27     ` Eric Sandeen
2021-01-09  0:49       ` Gao Xiang
2021-01-10 21:04         ` Dave Chinner
2021-01-11  0:17           ` Gao Xiang
2021-01-11 17:30             ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-11 18:02               ` Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 19:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] xfs: hoist out xfs_resizefs_init_new_ags() Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 21:20   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-11 17:32   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-01-11 17:47     ` Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 19:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] xfs: support shrinking unused space in the last AG Gao Xiang
2021-01-08 21:19   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-01-09  0:47     ` Gao Xiang

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