Re: [PATCH 6/3] xfs: make largest supported offset less shouty

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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 05:58:30PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:57:29PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > XFS_MAXIOFFSET() is just a simple macro that resolves to
> > mp->m_maxioffset. It doesn't need to exist, and it just makes the
> > code unnecessarily loud and shouty.
> > 
> > Make it quiet and easy to read.
> 
> Do we actually need to keep around a value in our superblock?
> s_maxbytes in the VFS superblock already does this, and it seems like
> at least our checks in the read path are superflous.

Ah, we do indeed keep the same value in s_maxbytes - that's one step
removed from m_maxioffset because it uses the same function to
calculate it, and they are done a long way apart. Ok, it looks like
I've got a couple more patches to write to finish off this cleanup.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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