[RFC PATCH 2/2] xfs_export_operations.commit_metadata

[Dave Chinner]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:15:27PM -0600, bpm at sgi.com wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:07:50AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 06:33:37PM -0600, Ben Myers wrote:
> > > hopefully
> > > the XFS gurus can continue to provide guidance.
> > 
> > Ccing the xfs list would help with that :) 
> 
> I'll cross-post the next rev.  ;)
> 
> > > +		if (xfs_ipincount(c_xip)) {
> > > +			/*
> > > +			 * AFAICS the child is always modified after the parent
> > > +			 * in nfsd so should always have a larger lsn.
> > > +			 */
> > > +			if (c_xip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn > force_lsn) {
> > > +				force_lsn = c_xip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn;
> > > +			} else {
> > > +				force_lsn = 0; /* whole thing */
> > > +			}
> > 
> > I wouldn't rely on that and always take the larger one.
> 
> I am concerned that ili_last_lsn will roll over at some point.  I
> haven't figured out how to detect that yet.

XFS_LSN_CMP() should be used for LSN comparisons - it handles
rollover corectly.


> > Now with the simplification of always having a non-zero first argument
> > suggested in the previous mail this might be simplified down to:
> > 
> > STATIC int
> > xfs_fs_nfs_commit_metadata(
> > 	struct dentry		*parent,
> > 	struct dentry		*child)
> > {
> > 	struct xfs_inode	*dp = XFS_I(parent->d_inode);
> > 	struct xfs_inode	*ip = NULL;
> > 	struct xfs_mount	*mp = dp->i_mount;
> > 	xfs_lsn_t		force_lsn = 0;
> > 	int			error = 0;
> > 
> > 	if (child) {
> > 		ip = XFS_I(child->d_inode);
> > 		xfs_lock_two_inodes(dp, ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
> > 	} else {
> > 		xfs_ilock(dp, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
> > 	}
> > 
> > 	if (xfs_ipincount(dp))
> > 		force_lsn = dp->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn;
> > 	if (ip && xfs_ipincount(ip))
> > 		force_lsn = max(force_lsn, ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn);

So this should be:

		if (XFS_LSN_CMP(force_lsn, ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn) < 0)
			force_lsn = ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn;

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com