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Message-ID: <20120926032426.GA496@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:24:26 +0800
From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@...il.com>,
Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/8 v2] ext4: initialize extent status tree
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:47:45PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:09:55AM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:59:21PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:42:52PM +0800, Zheng Liu wrote:
> > > > > If so, we might want to think about adding a sanity check to make sure
> > > > > that by the time we are done with the inode in ext4_evict_inode()
> > > > > (after we have forced writeback), the ext4_es_tree is empty. Agreed?
> > > >
> > > > Today I revise this patch again, and I find extent_status_tree is freed
> > > > in ext4_clear_inode(). So maybe I don't think that we need to check
> > > > this tree to be freed in ext4_evict_inode(). This change is in this
> > > > patch '[RFC][PATCH 4/8 v2] ext4: let ext4 maintain extent status tree'.
> > > > What's your opinion?
> > >
> > > When you say "revise this patch again", does that mean that you would
> > > like to submit a new set of patch series with changes? Or just that
> > > you are looking at this patch set again?
> >
> > Yes, I prepare to submit a new patch set.
>
> Well, note that the merge window is opening *soon*. I haven't yet
> moved the master branch, so I can update the patch set, but I'm going
> to need it soon.
>
> Can you let me know what changes you need to make? If it is to add
> new features or new sanity checks, does it make sense to simply make
> it as new commits to existing patch set? Or are there fundamental
> problems with the current set, that would be better to fix in the
> current set of commits? (Or is it just minor stylistic/spelling
> fixes?)
>
> Thanks!!
In new patch set, there is three changes as beblow:
1. add a sanity check in ext4_evict_inode()
2. fix a bug in ext4_find_delalloc_range(). This bug is reported by
xfstest #230 when we enable bigalloc feature.
3. Add a new rwlock to protect extent status tree.
So I think that we can only add a sanity check and fix the bigalloc bug,
and then apply this patch set because the changes are minor. For adding
a new lock to protect extent status tree, we can add this feature in a
new patch. If you think it is OK, I can generate a new patch set, do
some tests using xfstest, and submit it as soon as possible. What's
your opinion?
Regards,
Zheng
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