On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:07:01AM -0800, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Alex Tomas wrote:
> >I think that stuff that converts uninitialized blocks
> >to initialized ones should be a separate codepath and
> >shouldn't be done in the insert path. and an insert
> >(basic tree manipulation) should BUG_ON() one tries
> >to add extent with a block which is already covered
> >by the tree.
> >
> >IMHO, get_blocks() should look like:
> >
> > path = find_path()
> > if (found extent covers request block(s)) {
> > if (extent is uninitialized) {
> > convert();
> > }
> > }
> >
> >where
> > function convert()
> > {
> > /* adopt existing extent so that it
> > * doesn't cover requested blocks */
> >
> > /* insert head or tail of existing
> > * extent, if necessary */
> >
> > /* insert new extent of initialized blocks */
> > }
> >
> >thanks, Alex
>
> I was thing about the same thing. The current ext4_ext_get_blocks()
> function becomes very bulky. The code to convert uninitialized blocks to
> initialized ones is pretty selfcontained, and worth the effort to put it
> into a seperate function.
Ok. I will move this code to a new function.
--
Regards,
Amit Arora
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