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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: simplify the perage inode walk infrastructure
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:59:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210324175937.GA14862@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210324175735.GX22100@magnolia>

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:57:35AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 08:03:06AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Remove the generic xfs_inode_walk and just open code the only caller.
> 
> This is going in the wrong direction for me.  Maybe.
> 
> I was planning to combine the reclaim inode walk into this function, and
> later on share it with inactivation.  This made for one switch-happy
> iteration function, but it meant there was only one loop.

Ok, we can skip this for now if this gets in your way.  Or I can resend
a different patch 2 that just removes the no tag case for now.

> OFC maybe the point that you and/or Dave were trying to make is that I
> should be doing the opposite, and combining the inactivation loop into
> what is now the (badly misnamed) xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag?  And leave this
> blockgc loop alone?

That is my gut feeling.  No guarantee it actually works out, and given
that I've lead you down the wrong road a few times I already feel guily
ahead of time..

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24  7:03 simplify the blockgc iwalk infrastructure Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-24  7:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: use s_inodes in xfs_qm_dqrele_all_inodes Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-24 17:50   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-24  7:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: simplify the perage inode walk infrastructure Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-24 17:57   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-24 17:59     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-25  4:30       ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-24  7:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: pass struct xfs_eofblocks to the inode scan callback Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-24 18:03   ` Darrick J. Wong

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