Re: [PATCH 6/9] xfs: xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc_range() should take a byte range

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:44:46AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 12:30:40PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > All the callers of xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc_range() jump through
> > hoops to convert a byte range to filesystem blocks before calling
> > xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc_range(). Instead, pass the byte range to
> > xfs_bmap_punch_delalloc_range() and have it do the conversion to
> > filesystem blocks internally.
> 
> Ok, so we do this here.   Why can't we just do this earlier and
> avoid the strange inbetween stage with a wrapper?

Probably to avoid rewriting the previous patch with this units change,
is my guess.  Dave, do you want to merge with this patch 4?  I'm
satisfied enough with patches 4 and 6 that I'd rather get this out to
for-next for further testing than play more patch golf.

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>

--D



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