Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfs: move the tagged perag lookup helpers to xfs_icache.c

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 11:28:48PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 09:34:07AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > I don't particularly like moving these functions to another file, but I
> > suppose the icache is the only user of these tags.  How hard is it to
> > make userspace stubs that assert if anyone ever tries to use it?
> 
> I looked into not moving them, but the annoying thing is that we then
> need to make the ici_tag_to_mark helper added later and the marks
> global.  Unless this is a blocker for you I'd much prefer to just
> keep all the tag/mark logic contained in icache.c for now.  Things
> might change a bit if/when we do the generic xfs_group and also use
> tags for garbage collection of zoned rtgs, but I'd rather build the
> right abstraction when we get to that.  That will probably also
> include sorting out the current mess with the ICI vs IWALK flags.

Or converting pag_ici_root to an xarray, and then we can make all of
them use the same mark symbols. <shrug>

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