Hey Jan, Christoph,
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:01:52PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 20-08-13 23:43:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Sorry for being late to the game, but I don not like the in-kernel
> > interface here at all. Given that Q_XGETQSTATV is a strict superset
> > of Q_XGETQSTAT there is no need for the second method - just always
> > fill out the larger in-kernel structure and only copy the smaller
> > information to userspace for the Q_XGETSTAT case. That keeps the amount
> > of code required in the implementations of the methods low and follows
> > the model used elsewhere in the kernel (e.g. stat and statfs)
So you don't like the addition of .get_xstatev in quotactl_ops, and
fs_quota_stat would need to match with fs_quota_statv, adding the project quota
to the end of the structure?
> Well, the trouble is with gquota vs pquota - previously we report in
> qs_gquota field either group quotas or project quotas depending on what is
> turned on. Generic quota code doesn't know this so xfs get_xstatev() would
> have to recognize whether it is being called from the old Q_XGETSTAT
> quotactl or from the new Q_XGETSTATV quotactl to know where to fill in
> project quotas. And at that point you somewhat loose the elegancy of using
> one interface - we could set qs_version to some special value so that
> .get_xstatev() recognizes this and does the magic but that doesn't seem very
> different from the extra call...
IIUC to make this happen without the addition of .get_xstate in quotactl_ops,
.get_xstate could also grow an argument to determine whether it was called as
Q_XGETSTAT vs Q_XGETSTATV. If called as Q_XGETSTATV it can look at qs_version
to determine how much to copy. That might be a bit cleaner than the qs_version
magic number, as long as you don't mind changing the .get_xstate interface.
> Some duplication could be certainly avoided within XFS itself.
Chandra may have taken this route to limit the possibility of breaking the old
interface...
Anyway, please give a shout if I need to revert this. I believe the commit
raced with the commentary. ;)
Thanks,
Ben
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