linux-ext4 - Re: 64-bit dblists

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Date:	Sun, 2 Nov 2008 22:09:36 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit dblists

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:59:10PM -0400, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In my continuing quest to finish the 64-bit conversion of e2fsprogs, I
> ran into this structure exported in ext2fs.h:
> 
> struct ext2_db_entry {
>         ext2_ino_t      ino;
>         blk_t   blk;
>         int     blockcnt;
> };
> 
> The "blk_t" is the problem here - we need a blk64_t.  A pointer to
> this structure is passed to the user-provided directory block iterator
> in ext2fs_dblist_iterate().
> 
> Assuming the goal is to preserve the ext2fs_dblist ABI, I can see two
> ways of doing this:
> 
> 1. Define ext2_db_entry2, ext2_dblist2, and ext2fs_dblist_*2() and do
> the usual translation/conversion function business.

The dblist.c and dblist_dir.c functions are so small that it's
probably not worth it to do translaction/conversation functions; it's
basically just a linked list convenience function implementation.

My suggestion is to just create a dblist2.c and dblist_dir2.c, and
just make a 64-bit version of the directory block list abstraction.
My guess that size of the conversaion functions would be bigger than a
new 64-bit version of the abstraction.  (The object size of dblist.o
and dblist_dir.o combined is only about 1.5k)

    		 	     	  	- Ted
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