On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 19:15 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:17:05PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 16:44 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > With the reclaim code separated from the generic walking code, it is
> > > simple to implement batched lookups for the generic walk code.
. . .
> > The gang lookup should never return
> > anything beyond the end of the AG. It seems
> > like you ought to be able to detect when you've
> > covered all the whole AG elsewhere,
>
> AFAICT, there are only two ways - the gang lookup returns nothing,
> or we see the last valid inode number in the AG. If you can come up
> with something that doesn't invlove a tree or inode number lookup,
> I'm all ears....
I didn't have anything specific in mind and was basing
this somewhat on gut feeling so you probably have the
best solution as-is. But I'll look at your new code
and if I come up with any bright ideas I'll let you
know.
-Alex
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