On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:24:55AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:18:34PM +0800, zwu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> 20 files changed, 2275 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_debugfs.c >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_debugfs.h >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_hash.c >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_hash.h >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_rb.c >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_rb.h >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_track.c >> >> create mode 100644 fs/hot_track.h >> >> create mode 100644 include/linux/hot_track.h >> > >> > So, 9 new files for tracking all of this? I'm not sure that so >> > many new files are needed - putting it all in fs/hot_tracking.[ch] >> > might make more sense, or if all 8 fs/hot* files remain, putting >> > them in their own subdirectory might be an idea (like quota). >> If all functions are in two files, they will be large and the logic is >> not so clear. so i prefer the latter. thanks. > > A single file is much easier to handle when searching and editting, > though. And realistically: > > $ wc -l fs/*.c |sort -nr -k 1 |head -10 > 62483 total > 4000 fs/namei.c > 3281 fs/buffer.c > 3169 fs/dcache.c > 2677 fs/namespace.c > 2364 fs/locks.c > 2321 fs/exec.c > 2120 fs/binfmt_elf.c > 2053 fs/splice.c > 1934 fs/eventpoll.c > $ > > There are plenty of files for a single function/subsystem of around > the aggregate size of this code, so everyone is used to dealing with > this amount of logic for a particular feature in a single file. > > I much prefer it that way, to tell the truth, because I find it > fairly common to have 5-10 files open at once when tracking > something through, say, the buffered IO path. If I've now got to > have another 5-10 files open just to track that same code path > through this index, then that makes it much more difficult to > manage than if were all in one .c file. > > IOWs, splitting code up into multiple files is not a win when the > resultant files are all small and interdependent and you need to > look at multiple files at the same time to understand what the code > does as a whole.... Just completed move them to one separate directory fs/hot_tracking/. But what you said makes sense to me, OK, i will adopt your suggestion, thanks. > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Regards, Zhi Yong Wu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html