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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix inode allocation block res calculation precedence
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 10:16:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e464b84-7945-95b5-c6ff-ae3eb8bee878@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200716121811.GB31705@bfoster>

On 7/16/20 5:18 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 12:02:09PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

...

>> i.e. XFS_IALLOC_SPACE_RES() is used in just 7 places in the code,
>> 4 of them are in that same header file, so it's a simple, standalone
>> patch that fixes the bug by addressing the underlying cause of
>> the problem (i.e. nasty macro!).
>>
> I agree that the inline is nicer than the macro, but a transaction
> reservation value seems misplaced to me in the IGEO. Perhaps having
> something analogous to struct xfs_trans_resv might be more appropriate.

For whatever my opinion is worth these days, it seems like doing
a survey to see how many of these reservations are static would be a
good first step, and then decide where they should all go if they should
move. I agree that IGEO might be a little odd, depending on what other
static reservation types there are and what they're associated with.

I see both sides of the discussion re: how fixes like this move forward
and what's easily backportable but in this case (and maybe I'm missing
context) it seems like a wider survey would be wise before deciding to
move this one value to IGEO in particular.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-17 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-15 19:33 [PATCH] xfs: fix inode allocation block res calculation precedence Brian Foster
2020-07-15 22:29 ` Dave Chinner
2020-07-16  1:47   ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-07-16  2:02     ` Dave Chinner
2020-07-16 12:18       ` Brian Foster
2020-07-17 17:16         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2020-07-17 20:07           ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-07-16 12:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: replace ialloc space res macro with inline helper Brian Foster
2020-07-16 22:01   ` Dave Chinner
2020-07-17 12:25     ` Brian Foster
2020-07-21 15:01 ` [PATCH] xfs: fix inode allocation block res calculation precedence Christoph Hellwig

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