linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: use generic per-cpu counter infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20101216153634.GA24185@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:36:34 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: use generic per-cpu counter infrastructure

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:21:52PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
> 
> XFS has a per-cpu counter implementation for in-core superblock
> counters that pre-dated the generic implementation. It is complex
> and baroque as it is tailored directly to the needs of ENOSPC
> detection.
> 
> Now that the generic percpu counter infrastructure has the
> percpu_counter_add_unless_lt() function that implements the
> necessary threshold checks for us, switch the XFS per-cpu
> superblock counters to use the generic percpu counter
> infrastructure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>

Looks good to me,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

A little nipick:

> -#ifdef HAVE_PERCPU_SB
>  	ASSERT(field < XFS_SBS_ICOUNT || field > XFS_SBS_FDBLOCKS);
> -#endif

No need to keep this assert - xfs_mod_incore_sb_unlocked already
has one for unknown fields.

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