From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] xfs: clean up buffer get/read call API
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:12:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F76058A.2010602@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333023835-12856-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On 03/29/12 07:23, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> The xfs_buf_get/read API is not consistent in the units it uses, and
> does not use appropriate or consistent units/types for the
> variables.
>
> Convert the API to use disk addresses and block counts for all
> buffer get and read calls. Use consistent naming for all the
> functions and their declarations, and convert the internal functions
> to use disk addresses and block counts to avoid need to convert them
> from one type to another and back again.
>
> Fix all the callers to use disk addresses and block counts. In many
> cases, this removes an additional conversion from the function call
> as the callers already have a block count.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de>
> ---
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 12:23 [PATCH 0/8] xfs: clean up unit usage in xfs_buf V2 Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfs: check for buffer errors before waiting Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:04 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 21:10 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 21:48 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 22:07 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 21:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 2/8] xfs: fix incorrect b_offset initialisation Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 20:43 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 3/8] xfs: use kmem_zone_zalloc for buffers Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-29 20:45 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs: clean up buffer get/read call API Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:12 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfs: kill b_file_offset Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:12 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs: use blocks for counting length of buffers Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfs: use blocks for storing the desired IO size Dave Chinner
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-29 12:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs: kill xfs_buf_btoc Dave Chinner
2012-03-29 19:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-30 19:13 ` Mark Tinguely
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