The only caller of rbd_header_from_disk() is rbd_read_header(). It passes as allocated_snaps the number of snapshots it will have received from the server for the snapshot context that rbd_header_from_disk() is to interpret. The first time through it provides 0--mainly to extract the number of snapshots from the snapshot context header--so that it can allocate an appropriately-sized buffer to receive the entire snapshot context from the server in a second request. rbd_header_from_disk() will not fill in the array of snapshot ids unless the number in the snapshot matches the number the caller had allocated. This patch adjusts that logic a little further to be more efficient. rbd_read_header() doesn't even examine the snapshot context unless the snapshot count (stored in header->total_snaps) matches the number of snapshots allocated. So rbd_header_from_disk() doesn't need to allocate or fill in the snapshot context field at all in that case. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/block/rbd.c =================================================================== --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -541,7 +541,14 @@ static int rbd_header_from_disk(struct r header->comp_type = ondisk->options.comp_type; header->total_snaps = snap_count; - /* Set up the snapshot context */ + /* + * If the number of snapshot ids provided by the caller + * doesn't match the number in the entire context there's + * no point in going further. Caller will try again after + * getting an updated snapshot context from the server. + */ + if (allocated_snaps != snap_count) + return 0; size = sizeof (struct ceph_snap_context); size += snap_count * sizeof (header->snapc->snaps[0]); @@ -553,8 +560,10 @@ static int rbd_header_from_disk(struct r header->snapc->seq = le64_to_cpu(ondisk->snap_seq); header->snapc->num_snaps = snap_count; - if (snap_count && allocated_snaps == snap_count) { - int i; + /* Fill in the snapshot information */ + + if (snap_count) { + u32 i; for (i = 0; i < snap_count; i++) { header->snapc->snaps[i] = -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html