Re: [PATCH 4/5] xfs: speed up directory bestfree block scanning

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:47:09AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 06:45:30PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > 
> > > The label rename while more descriptive also seems entirely unrelated.
> > 
> > That was one of your previous suggestions :)
> > 
> > I'll push it back up one patch into the cleanup patch and leave this
> > as an optimisation only patch.
> 
> Oh well.  Just keep it then :)

It was introduced in the previous patch, anyway :P

> > > > +		/* Scan the free entry array for a large enough free space. */
> > > > +		do {
> > > > +			if (be16_to_cpu(bests[findex]) != NULLDATAOFF &&
> > > > +			    be16_to_cpu(bests[findex]) >= length) {
> > > > +				dbno = freehdr.firstdb + findex;
> > > > +				goto found_block;
> > > >  			}
> > > > +		} while (++findex < freehdr.nvalid);
> > > 
> > > Nit: wou;dn't this be better written as a for loop also taking the
> > > initialization of findex into the loop?
> > 
> > Agreed - the next patch does that with the reversal of the search
> > order. The end result is what you're asking for, so I'll leave this
> > alone for now....
> 
> If you touch this patch anyway please just switch to the for loop
> here, that keeps the churn down in the next one.

OK.

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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