From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757229Ab0GNS2p (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:45 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:35225 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754803Ab0GNS2o (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:36 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: don't block on buffer read errors Message-ID: <20100714182836.GA12108@infradead.org> References: <1279007450-10457-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1279007450-10457-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1279007450-10457-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Looks good, except that I'd rework the snipplet below > status = xfs_buf_iorequest(bp); > - if (!status && !(flags & XBF_ASYNC)) > + if (!(status || XFS_BUF_ISERROR(bp) || (flags & XBF_ASYNC))) > status = xfs_buf_iowait(bp); > return status; as: if (status || XFS_BUF_ISERROR(bp) || (flags & XBF_ASYNC)) return status; return xfs_buf_iowait(bp); to make it a bit more clear.