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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:17:10 +0000
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/13] xfs: pass flags to xfs_reflink_allocate_cow()
On 17/03/2025 06:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 05:13:01PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>> @@ -823,6 +824,9 @@ xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin(
>> if (xfs_is_shutdown(mp))
>> return -EIO;
>>
>> + if (flags & IOMAP_DIRECT || IS_DAX(inode))
>> + reflink_flags |= XFS_REFLINK_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN;
>
> Given that this is where the policy is implemented now, this comment:
>
> /*
> * COW fork extents are supposed to remain unwritten until we're ready
> * to initiate a disk write. For direct I/O we are going to write the
> * data and need the conversion, but for buffered writes we're done.
> */
>
> from xfs_reflink_convert_unwritten should probably move here now.
ok, fine, I can relocate this comment to xfs_direct_write_iomap_begin(),
but please let me know if you prefer an rewording.
>
>> - return xfs_reflink_convert_unwritten(ip, imap, cmap, convert_now);
>> + return xfs_reflink_convert_unwritten(ip, imap, cmap,
>> + flags & XFS_REFLINK_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN);
>
> I'd probably thread the flags argument all the way through
> xfs_reflink_convert_unwritten as that documents the intent better.
ok
>
>> +/*
>> + * Flags for xfs_reflink_allocate_cow() and callees
>> + */
>
> And the full sentence with a .?
>
ok
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