Re: [PATCH 08/25] xfs: introduce xfs_bmapi_delay()

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On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:27 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > +	xfs_extnum_t		lastx;	/* last useful extent number */
> > > +	int			eof;	/* we've hit the end of extents */
> > > +	int			n = 0;	/* current extent index */
> > > +	int			error = 0;
> > > +
> > > +	ASSERT(*nmap >= 1);
> > > +	ASSERT(*nmap <= XFS_BMAP_MAX_NMAP);
> > > +	ASSERT(!(flags & ~XFS_BMAPI_ENTIRE));
> > > +
> > 
> > Rearrange the following test to use the pattern (assigning error)
> > used in xfs_bmapi_read().
> 
> Hmm - given that error is used as a boolean there I don't actually like
> that pattern very much as error is generally used to hold an errno
> value.

My main thought was "make them consistent."  But
looking at it again I agree that "error" is not
the right name.  It doesn't really need changing
but could be beautified in some later patch.

> > 
> > > +	if (unlikely(XFS_TEST_ERROR(
> > > +	    (XFS_IFORK_FORMAT(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK) != XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS &&
> > > +	     XFS_IFORK_FORMAT(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK) != XFS_DINODE_FMT_BTREE),
> > 
> > Are you certain that XFS_DINODE_FMT_LOCAL is not possible here?
> > I tried to trace it back but I'm still not sure.  The transaction
> > pointer passed is null, so it would have tripped an assertion
> > in the previous code.  (A simple explanation would reassure me.)
> 
> We can't hit it because we do not support the local format for regular
> files at all, and we do not support delayed allocations for anything
> but regular files.

OK.  That's another thing I didn't realize about XFS...

					-Alex


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