Re: [PATCH 2/5] xfs: use a cursor for bulk AIL insertion

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 04:26:16PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 17:20 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > FYI: the following patch implementing my suggested cleanups survived a
> > few rounds of xfsqa:
> 
> It also eliminates the concern I had about using the value
> of "lip" after falling off the front of the list with a
> list_for_each_entry_reverse().  A null pointer signifies
> no entry has a lower lsn than the one provided, and
> that covers both the "empty list" and the "lower than
> all other lsn's in the list" cases.
> 
> I think you should base your solution on Christoph's
> approach, Dave.

Already been updated to use hch's code ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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