linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 10/10] ext4: correct some stale comment of criteria

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Message-Id: <87sf92w7zy.fsf@doe.com>
Date:   Wed, 02 Aug 2023 06:55:21 +0530
From:   Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>
To:     Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>, tytso@....edu,
        adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     shikemeng@...weicloud.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/10] ext4: correct some stale comment of criteria

Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com> writes:

> Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com> writes:
>
>> We named criteria with CR_XXX, correct stale comment to criteria with
>> raw number.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@...weicloud.com>
>> ---
>>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> index bfaab173a3f4..1e8ce0ece47a 100644
>> --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
>> @@ -2782,8 +2782,8 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
>>  
>>  	/*
>>  	 * ac->ac_2order is set only if the fe_len is a power of 2
>> -	 * if ac->ac_2order is set we also set criteria to 0 so that we
>> -	 * try exact allocation using buddy.
>> +	 * if ac->ac_2order is set we also set criteria to CR_POWER2_ALIGNED
>> +	 * so that we try exact allocation using buddy.
>>  	 */
>>  	i = fls(ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len);
>>  	ac->ac_2order = 0;
>> @@ -2840,8 +2840,8 @@ ext4_mb_regular_allocator(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
>>  			/*
>>  			 * Batch reads of the block allocation bitmaps
>>  			 * to get multiple READs in flight; limit
>> -			 * prefetching at cr=0/1, otherwise mballoc can
>> -			 * spend a lot of time loading imperfect groups
>> +			 * prefetching at inexpensive CR, otherwise mballoc
>> +			 * can spend a lot of time loading imperfect groups
>>  			 */
>>  			if ((prefetch_grp == group) &&
>>  			    (ext4_mb_cr_expensive(cr) ||
> Is this function defined at any place ^^^

aah ok got it. Here [1]

...which you have also mentioned in your cover letetr. So your patch series
currently is depenedent of above patch [1]

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20230630085927.140137-1-ojaswin@linux.ibm.com/


Feel free to add - 
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@...il.com>


>
> -ritesh