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From: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: rename btrfs_alloc_chunk to btrfs_create_chunk
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:26:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb7458e5-6c4d-c02a-2b81-d12f476822a9@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210705091643.3404691-1-nborisov@suse.com>



On 5.07.21 г. 12:16, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> The user facing function used to allocate new chunks is
> btrfs_chunk_alloc, unfortunately there is yet another similar sounding
> function - btrfs_alloc_chunk. This creates confusion, especially since
> the latter function can be considered "private" in the sense that it
> implements the first stage of chunk creation and as such is called by
> btrfs_chunk_alloc.
> 
> To avoid the awkwardness that comes with having similarly named but
> distinctly different in their purpose function rename btrfs_alloc_chunk
> to btrfs_create_chunk, given that the main purpose of this function is
> to orchestrate the whole process of allocating a chunk - reserving space
> into devices, deciding on characteristics of the stripe size and
> creating the in-memory structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-18  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-05  9:16 [PATCH v2] btrfs: rename btrfs_alloc_chunk to btrfs_create_chunk Nikolay Borisov
2021-07-05 10:14 ` Filipe Manana
2021-07-05 13:07 ` Anand Jain
2021-08-18  6:26 ` Nikolay Borisov [this message]
2021-08-18 10:24   ` David Sterba

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