Re: [PATCH 8/9] xfs: use AIL bulk update function to implement single updates

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:32:22PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We now have two copies of AIL insert operations that are mostly
> duplicate functionality. The single log item updates can be
> implemented via the bulk updates by turning xfs_trans_ail_update()
> into a simple wrapper. This removes all the duplicate insert
> functionality and associated helpers.


Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

> +     struct xfs_ail  *ailp,
> +static inline void
> +xfs_trans_ail_update(
> +     xfs_log_item_t  *lip,
> +     xfs_lsn_t       lsn) __releases(ailp->xa_lock)
> +{
> +     struct xfs_log_item     *log_items[1] = { lip, };
> +
> +     xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk(ailp, log_items, 1, lsn);

This could be simplified down to:

        xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk(ailp, &lip, 1, lsn);

at which point it could even become a macro.