Re: [PATCH][CFT] (updated) ext2 directories in pagecache

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Monday 14 May 2001 20:33, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Daniel, you write:
> > Now, if the check routine tells us how much good data it found we
> > could use that to set a limit for the dirent scan, thus keeping the
> > same robustness as the old code but without having all the checks
> > in the inner loop.  Or.  We could have separate loops for good
> > blocks and bad blocks, it's just a very small amount of code.
>
> Yes, I was thinking about both of those as well.  I think the latter
> would be easiest, because we only need to keep a single error bit per
> buffer.

Today's patch has the first part of that fix:

    http://nl.linux.org/~phillips/htree/dx.pcache-2.4.4-6

I broke up Al's check_page routine into the page-specific part and the 
dirent-specific part, which I call every time a buffer is brought 
uptodate in ext2_bread.  This is roughly as efficient as Al's 
page-oriented check.  I could get rid of the code in Al's check_page 
that initializes sets the rec_lens of a new dir page to blocksize 
because I do that explicitly in ext2_add_entry now.  This will make it 
a little cleaner.

The next step is to try and incorporate the intelligence about the good 
parts of a bad dirent block into the entry lookup code cleanly.

I moved ext2_bread and ext2_append into dir.c because of their 
dir-specific nature.  (I have some plans for ext2_getblk that have 
nothing to do with directories, which is why I'm trying to keep it 
generic.)

--
Daniel