Re: [PATCH 02/10] xfs: separate buffer indexing from block map

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On 04/24/12 01:33, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>

To support discontiguous buffers in the buffer cache, we need to
separate the cache index variables from the I/O map. While this is
currently a 1:1 mapping, discontiguous buffer support will break
this relationship.

However, for caching purposes, we can still treat them the same as a
contiguous buffer - the block number of the first block and the
length of the buffer - as that is still a unique representation.
Also, the only way we will ever access the discontiguous regions of
buffers is via bulding the complete buffer in the first place, so
using the initial block number and entire buffer length is a sane
way to index the buffers.

Add a block mapping vector construct to the xfs_buf and use it in
the places where we are doing IO instead of the current
b_bn/b_length variables.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
...
+struct xfs_buf_map {
+	xfs_daddr_t		bm_bn;	/* block number for I/O */
+	int			bm_len;	/* size of I/O */
+};
+
  typedef struct xfs_buf {
  	/*
  	 * first cacheline holds all the fields needed for an uncontended cache
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_buf {
  	 * fast-path on locking.
  	 */
  	struct rb_node		b_rbnode;	/* rbtree node */
-	xfs_daddr_t		b_bn;		/* block number for I/O */
+	xfs_daddr_t		b_bn;		/* block number of buffer */
  	int			b_length;	/* size of buffer in BBs */

Looks good.
Do you plan to eventually remove b_bn and b_length from xfs_buf?

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@xxxxxxx>

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