linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] xfs: convert delayed extents to unwritten when zeroing post eof blocks

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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:11:49 +0800
From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...weicloud.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 brauner@...nel.org, david@...morbit.com, chandanbabu@...nel.org,
 tytso@....edu, jack@...e.cz, yi.zhang@...wei.com, chengzhihao1@...wei.com,
 yukuai3@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/9] xfs: convert delayed extents to unwritten when
 zeroing post eof blocks

On 2024/4/29 12:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 11:26:00AM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh well.  Given that we're full in on the speculative allocations
>>> we might as well deal with it.
>>>
>>
>> Let me confirm, so you also think the preallocations in the COW fork that
>> overlaps the unreflinked range is useless, we should avoid allocating
>> this range, is that right? If so, I suppose we can do this improvement in
>> another patch(set), this one works fine now.
> 
> Well, not stop allocating it, but not actually convert it to a real
> allocation when we're just truncating it and replacing the blocks with
> reflinked blocks.

OK, it looks fine, too.

Thanks,
Yi.

> 
> But yes, this is a bigger project.>
> For now for this patch to go ahead:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>