linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 27/28] ext4: xattr inode deduplication

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:42:09 -0600
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Cc:     "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 27/28] ext4: xattr inode deduplication


> On Jun 21, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Tashin, we are already using the "no_mbcache" option name, so would prefer
>> to keep that working.  It would be OK to accept both option names to mean
>> the same thing, and only document the "nombcache" option.
> 
> Updated patch to accept both nombcache and no_mbcache.
> 
>>>      struct mb_cache *s_mb_cache;
>>> +     struct mb_cache *s_ea_inode_cache;
>> 
>> These names should be consistent, like "s_ea_block_cache".
> 
> Yes, I will rename this to s_ea_block_cache.
> 
>>> #define EXT4_GET_MB_CACHE(inode)      (((struct ext4_sb_info *) \
>>>                              inode->i_sb->s_fs_info)->s_mb_cache)
>>> 
>>> +#define EA_INODE_CACHE(inode)        (((struct ext4_sb_info *) \
>>> +                             inode->i_sb->s_fs_info)->s_ea_inode_cache)
>> 
>> These names should be consistent, like EXT4_GET_EA_CACHE() or maybe
>> EXT4_GET_EA_BLOCK_CACHE() and EXT4_GET_EA_INODE_CACHE().
> 
> How about EA_BLOCK_CACHE() and EA_INODE_CACHE() to keep them short?

Sure, that is fine since these macros are local to xattr.c.

Cheers, Andreas






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