[PATCH 6/7] xfs: nothing special about 1-block log sector
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sat Mar 20 11:50:11 CDT 2010
> + /*
> + * We do log I/O in units of log sectors (a power-of-2
> + * multiple of the basic block size), so we round up the
> + * requested size to acommodate the basic blocks required
> + * for complete log sectors.
> + *
> + * In addition, the buffer may be used for a non-sector-
> + * aligned block offset, in which case an I/O of the
> + * requested size could extend beyond the end of the
> + * buffer. If the requested size is only 1 basic block it
> + * will never straddle a sector boundary, so this won't be
> + * an issue. Nor will this be a problem if the log I/O is
> + * done in basic blocks (sector size 1). But otherwise we
> + * extend the buffer by one extra log sector to ensure
> + * there's space to accomodate this possiblility.
> + */
Ah, you're adding the comment that I asked a few patches ago here,
great!
The patch looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
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