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From: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
To: aelder@sgi.com
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] xfsrestore: cleanup node allocation
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:36:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE1A7CE.7040905@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289853509.2199.224.camel@doink>

On 11/15/2010 02:38 PM, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 11:35 -0500, wkendall@sgi.com wrote:
>> plain text document attachment (node_alloc_cleanup)
>> Simplify the node allocation code. The current code takes some
>> number of nodes from a new segment and links them into the
>> freelist whenever the freelist is depleted. There's no reason
>> to put the new nodes on the freelist, we can just allocate the
>> next available new node as needed. This also saves a trip through
>> win_map/win_unmap if there are no nodes on the freelist (the
>> common case).
>
> Prior to your change, a node allocated off the "virgin"
> segment got zeroed before it gets returned for use. Your
> change eliminates that.  Is that OK?

There's a wrapper function, Node_alloc, through which
all callers allocate nodes. Node_alloc initializes each
field. So this is okay.

>
> You also dropped a few TREE_DEBUG messages.  Were they
> not useful?  (Just curious.)

I did not find them useful (though probably should have
mentioned it in the commit message.)

Bill

>
> Otherwise looks good.
>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder<aelder@sgi.com>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall<wkendall@sgi.com>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-15 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 16:35 [PATCH v2 0/9] xfsrestore dirent limitations and scaling issues wkendall
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] xfsrestore: turn off NODECHK wkendall
2010-11-12 23:23   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] xfsrestore: change nrh_t from 32 to 64 bits wkendall
2010-11-12 23:24   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] xfsrestore: cache path lookups wkendall
2010-11-12 23:25   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] xfsrestore: mmap dirent names for faster lookups wkendall
2010-11-12 23:25   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-15 21:51     ` Bill Kendall
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] xfsrestore: cleanup node allocation wkendall
2010-11-15 20:38   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-15 21:36     ` Bill Kendall [this message]
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] xfsrestore: fix node table setup wkendall
2010-11-15 20:38   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-15 21:30     ` Bill Kendall
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] xfsrestore: make node lookup more efficient wkendall
2010-11-15 20:38   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-15 22:06     ` Bill Kendall
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] xfsrestore: remove nix_t wkendall
2010-11-12 23:25   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-05 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] xfsrestore: check for compatible xfsrestore wkendall
2010-11-12 23:25   ` Alex Elder
2010-11-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] xfsrestore dirent limitations and scaling issues Alex Elder

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