Re: [RFC] [PATCHv3 2/9] reiser4: block_alloc: add a "forward" parameter to reiser4_blocknr_hint to allocate blocks only in forward direction.

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On Tuesday 21 October 2014 at 17:50:23, Edward Shishkin wrote:	
> On 08/17/2014 11:52 PM, Ivan Shapovalov wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Ivan Shapovalov<intelfx100@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   fs/reiser4/block_alloc.h         | 5 +++--
> >   fs/reiser4/plugin/space/bitmap.c | 3 ++-
> >   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/reiser4/block_alloc.h b/fs/reiser4/block_alloc.h
> > index bfc6be9..08b3941 100644
> > --- a/fs/reiser4/block_alloc.h
> > +++ b/fs/reiser4/block_alloc.h
> > @@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ struct reiser4_blocknr_hint {
> >   	/* block allocator assumes that blocks, which will be mapped to disk,
> >   	   are in this specified block_stage */
> >   	block_stage_t block_stage;
> > -	/* If direction = 1 allocate blocks in backward direction from the end
> > -	 * of disk to the beginning of disk.  */
> > +	/* Allocate blocks only in backward direction starting from blk. */
> >   	unsigned int backward:1;
> > +	/* Allocate blocks only in forward direction starting from blk. */
> > +	unsigned int forward:1;
> 
> 
> I suggest to call this bitfield "monotonic_forward"

Isn't it an opposite of "backward"? Should we rename both?

BTW, in plugin/space/bitmap.c:1141 (around that line)
in function alloc_blocks_forward()
shouldn't the second scan be done with bitmap_alloc_backward(), as per the
comment?

Thanks,
-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /

> >   
> >   };
> >   
> > diff --git a/fs/reiser4/plugin/space/bitmap.c b/fs/reiser4/plugin/space/bitmap.c
> > index 3da3f6b..9beaf66 100644
> > --- a/fs/reiser4/plugin/space/bitmap.c
> > +++ b/fs/reiser4/plugin/space/bitmap.c
> > @@ -1127,7 +1127,8 @@ static int alloc_blocks_forward(reiser4_blocknr_hint *hint, int needed,
> >   	/* There is only one bitmap search if max_dist was specified or first
> >   	   pass was from the beginning of the bitmap. We also do one pass for
> >   	   scanning bitmap in backward direction. */
> > -	if (!(actual_len != 0 || hint->max_dist != 0 || search_start == 0)) {
> > +	if (actual_len == 0 && search_start != 0 &&
> > +	    hint->max_dist == 0 && hint->forward == 0) {
> >   		/* next step is a scanning from 0 to search_start */
> >   		search_end = search_start;
> >   		search_start = 0;
> 
> 
> OK with this patch,
> I'll continue to review this patch series at leisure.
> 
> Thanks,
> Edward.

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