linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/9][e2fsprogs] Add 64-bit alloc

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Message-ID: <20080512122536.3625c5a0@gara>
Date:	Mon, 12 May 2008 12:25:36 -0500
From:	"Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/9][e2fsprogs] Add 64-bit alloc_stats interface.

On Mon, 12 May 2008 10:43:53 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> > +	/*FIXME: Not blk64_t clean */
> 
> Suggestion, please use "FIXME-64" instead of fixme so it's easier to
> clean this up later.

Will do.
 
> >  	int	group = ext2fs_group_of_blk(fs, blk);

Ops...  I missed this one.

> Might as well fix this in the initial patch series, earlier --- and
> let's *not* make it be an inline function.  Yeah, we call
> ext2fs_group_of_blk and ext2fs_group_of_ino a fair amount, but #1, on
> 32-bit machines, the 64 bit arithmemtic makes the function bigger, and
> #2, modern CPU's have greatly reduced the cost of procedure
> activations.

Will fix it in the series.

> 						- Ted

-JRS
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