Re: xfs: clean up log tickets and record writes v2

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 02:06:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series follows up on conversions about relogging infrastructure
> and the way xfs_log_done() does two things but only one of several
> callers uses both of those functions. It also pointed out that
> xfs_trans_commit() never writes to the log anymore, so only
> checkpoints pass a ticket to xlog_write() with this flag set and
> no transaction makes multiple calls to xlog_write() calls on the
> same ticket. Hence there's no real need for XLOG_TIC_INITED to track
> whether a ticket has written a start record to the log anymore.
> 
> A lot of further cleanups fell out of this. Once we no longer use
> XLOG_TIC_INITED to carry state inside the write loop, the logic
> can be simplified in both xlog_write and xfs_log_done. xfs_log_done
> can be split up, and then the call chain can be flattened because
> xlog_write_done() and xlog_commit_record() are basically the same.
> 
> This then leads to cleanups writing both commit and unmount records.
> 
> Finally, to complete what started all this, the XLOG_TIC_INITED flag
> is removed.
> 
> A git tree is avaiblable here:
> 
>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git xlog-ticket-cleanup.2
> 
> Gitweb:
> 
>     http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xlog-ticket-cleanup.2
> 
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - taking this over from Dave (for now) as he is still injured, an it
>    interacts closely with my log error handling bits
>  - rebased on top of for-next + the "more log cleanups" series
>  - fix an accounting error in xlog_write
>  - use a bool for the ticket header in xlog_write
>  - add a new patch to split xlog_ticket_done
> 

This seems to ignore various bits of (trivial) feedback from v1 as well
as drops all reviews...

Brian




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