Re: Limits on agi->agi_level (and other btree depths?)

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On 2/12/14, 7:03 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:54:19PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:

...

>> I guess XFS_BTREE_MAXLEVELS is just an arbitrary in-memory limit,
>> not a limit of the underlying disk structures, but as it stands,
>> we should be sure that we don't exceed it, right?
> 
> If you really want to enforce XFS_BTREE_MAXLEVELS, add checks
> into xfs_alloc_compute_maxlevels(), xfs_ialloc_compute_maxlevels()
> and xfs_bmap_compute_maxlevels() to constrain the limits in the
> struct xfs_mount and validate the on-disk values based on the
> values in the struct xfs_mount.

Thanks, I had forgotten those existed - that looks perfect.

>> I was going to put that limit into xfs_agi_verify, but realized
>> that I wasn't sure if we could actually exceed that depth in
>> normal operations.
>>
>> (cue dchinner working out that 9 levels is 59 bazillion jillion
>> items, and will never be hit?)
> 
> Yep, done that ;)

I knew you'd enjoy it.  ;)

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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