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Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfs: Introduce writeback context for writepages

To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfs: Introduce writeback context for writepages
From: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:16:37 +1100
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 08:48:50AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 05:39:41AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > - if (!ioend || need_ioend || type != ioend->io_type) {
> > > -         xfs_ioend_t     *previous = *result;
> > > -
> > > -         ioend = xfs_alloc_ioend(inode, type);
> > > -         ioend->io_offset = offset;
> > > -         ioend->io_buffer_head = bh;
> > > -         ioend->io_buffer_tail = bh;
> > > -         if (previous)
> > > -                 previous->io_list = ioend;
> > > -         *result = ioend;
> > > + if (!wpc->ioend || wpc->io_type != wpc->ioend->io_type ||
> > > +     bh->b_blocknr != wpc->last_block + 1) {
> > 
> > We now start a new ioend if the blocks aren't contiguous, which seems
> > reasonable.  But this also means the similar check in xfs_submit_ioend
> > should be removed at the same time.
> 
> OK.

On second thoughts, I have another patch I haven't posted yet that
builds bios directly in xfs_add_to_ioend() that gets rid of the
buffer head chain walk during submission, so I'll leave changing the
submission code to that patch rather than changing here...

Cheers,

Dave.

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Dave Chinner
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