Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] xfs: kill hard-coded number 128 for transaction space log reservation

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On 01/22/2013 10:33 PM, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 01/22/13 00:52, Jeff Liu wrote:
>> On 01/19/2013 08:20 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:40:52PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
>>>> On 01/10/13 07:47, Jeff Liu wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the v2 patch set of killing hard-coded number 128 which is used to indicate
>>>>> the extra log space reservation for almost all of those transactions.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this round, I also tried to convert some transactions to pre-calculate out the
>>>>> space log reservation from runtime to mount time so that we can make the code related
>>>>> to xfs_trans_reserve() looks a bit neat and reduce a bit performance overhead(basically
>>>>> can be ignored. :)) IMHO, which were includes: super block quota flags changes,
>>>>> quota off/end of quota off, adjust quota limits, quota allocations, log dummy1,
>>>>> log super block counters, log super block units/fields, as well as set attributes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Changes of v2 to v1:
>>>>> - use xfs_calc_buf_res() to calulate out the space log reservation per item.
>>>>>
>>>>> Old patches:
>>>>> v1:
>>>>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg15499.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> -Jeff
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> I did a quick read of the series and it looks good.
>>>>
>>>> Any reason to have separate constants for:
>>>>
>>>>   XFS_SYNC_ICSBCOUNT_LOG_RES(mp)
>>>>   XFS_SYNC_ICSBUNIT_LOG_RES(mp)
>>>>   XFS_LOG_DUMMY1_LOG_RES(mp)
>>>>
>>>> since they are the same value and are all superblock operations.
>>>
>>> Right - they can all use the same "XFS_SB_LOG_RES(mp)" reservation.
>>>
>>> FWIW, using the notiation "ICSB" is wrong here. ICSB is short for
>>> "in-core superblock" (i.e. in memory) but transactions are used for
>>> modifying the on-disk superblock. They are two separate things, so
>>> let's make sure we get the terminology right. ;)
>> Since those transactions are used for changing the on-disk super block,
>> how about naming this transaction to XFS_UPDATE_SB_LOG_RES(mp) and
>> introduce a corresponding mp->m_reservations.tr_updatesb?
>> Does this sounds more meaningful?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Jeff
>>
> 
> I like the simpler "XFS_SB_LOG_RES(mp)". It follows the existing names.
That is ok, then.

Thanks,
-Jeff

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