[patch 01/12] xfs: split tail_lsn assignments from log space wakeups

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:48:10PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 01/-10/63 13:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Currently xfs_log_move_tail has a tail_lsn argument that is horribly
> >overloaded: it may contain either an actual lsn to assign to the log tail,
> >0 as a special case to use the last sync LSN, or 1 to indicate that no tail
> >LSN assignment should be performed, and we should opportunisticly wake up
> >at least one task waiting for log space.
> 
> I read the code as opportunistically waking at MOST one task per call.

I guess my wording wasn't quite clear - the opportunistic flag makes
sure at least one task is woken per call, but at most one of them
wouldn't otherwise be woken.

> Looks great. Just to be consistent, you could call the above as:
> 
> +		xfs_log_space_wake(ailp->xa_mount, true);

Indeed.