[PATCH 1/7] xfs: let iop_format write directly into the linear buffer

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 07:11:52AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of setting up pointers to memory locations in iop_format which then
> get copied into the CIL linear buffer after return move the copy into
> the individual inode items.  This avoids the need to always have a memory
> block in the exact same layout that gets written into the log around, and
> allow the log items to be much more flexible in their in-memory layouts.

There's a lot of fair intricate manipulations in this patch that
could be separated and hence easier to understand. I think you could
break this up in several patches:

	- xfs_buf_item_straddle() factoring
	- removal of the special cases for no endian swapping around
	  xfs_inode_item_format_extents()
	- a separate patch to introduce xlog_first/next/last_iovec(),
	  as I had to find those first to understand how the new
	  code worked
	- a new xlog_copy_iovec() function instead of open coding
	  the same 3 lines of code in 14 different places:

static inline void
xlog_copy_iovec(
	struct xfs_log_iovec	*vec,
	void			*src,
	int			len,
	int			type)
{
	memcpy(vec->i_addr, src_ptr, len);
	vec->i_len = len;
	vec->i_type = type;
}

	- and finally all the conversions. The addition of an
	  xlog_copy_vec() helper will make the final patch that does
	  the switchover much smaller and easier to verify....


Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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