Re: [PATCH] xfs: revert to double-buffering readdir

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:36:25PM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:

> Looks like the readdir is in the bowels of the btree code when
> filldir gets called here, there are probably locks on several
> buffers in the btree at this point. This will only show up for large
> directories I bet.

I see it for fairly small directories.  Larger than what you can stuff
into an inode but less than a block (I'm not checking but fairly sure
that's the case).

> Just rambling, not a single line of code was consulted in writing
> this message.

Can you explain why the offset is capped and treated in an 'odd way'
at all?

+       curr_offset = filp->f_pos;
+       if (curr_offset == 0x7fffffff)
+               offset = 0xffffffff;
+       else
+               offset = filp->f_pos;

and later the offset to filldir is masked.  Is that some restriction
in filldir?