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From: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: lachlan@sgi.com, xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove xfs_iext_irec_compact_full()
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:14:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D71B9D.2040800@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D71701.6070900@sandeen.net>



Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> Yet another bug was found in xfs_iext_irec_compact_full() and while the
>> source of the bug was found it wasn't an easy task to track it down because
>> the conditions are very difficult to reproduce.  Code that is difficult to
>> reach is difficult to test and debug.
> 
> It might be nice to give credit to those who helped find it in the commit ;)

yes, this is a very significant bug to find, thanks.

I'm wondering whether it would be worth auditing or re-reviewing the entire
incore-extents-optimization patchset (if that's possible against the current
code base). Or should we just fix this and move on - let the testing 
speak for
itself? The hard to hit code paths are a worry IMO.

Cheers
-- Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-22  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-22  3:50 [PATCH] Remove xfs_iext_irec_compact_full() Lachlan McIlroy
2008-09-22  3:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-09-22  4:14   ` Mark Goodwin [this message]
2008-09-22  4:25   ` Lachlan McIlroy

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