Re: [PATCH 08/16] pnfs: wave 3: lseg refcounting

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:48:26AM -0500, Fred Isaman wrote:
>> pnfs_free_lseg_list, besides calling free_lseg, also potentially
>> removes the layout from the clients list of inodes with layouts.
>
> Looks like the routine than changed from the mainline variant
> I looked at.  I took a quick look at the one from pnfs-submit,
> which looks quite suspicios, as it special cases the first item
> on the list without a good explanation and then iterates the list.
>

I can add a comment, but every element on the list is from the same
layout, so we just grab the layout from the first item in the list.

> Does your tree have another caller of pnfs_free_lseg_list?

Yes, there are several callers, two in callback_proc.c for example
which are both potentially actual lists.

Fred


> If not
> please just open code the right thing in the caller, instead of
> pretending we're dealing with a list if you're always dealing with
> one entry.  If the tree grows a caller that needs to deal with a list
> with more than 1 entry we can revisit if there's a point in sharing
> code.
>
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