[dm-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/9] block: add block_device_operations methods to set and get reserved space
Brian Foster
bfoster at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 12:05:49 UTC 2016
Re-add dm-devel at redhat.com, linux-block at vger.kernel.org to CC.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 08:53:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 01:08:29PM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Good news about this interface, I just have a small suggestion in this patch:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > > From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > fs/block_dev.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 +++++
> > > 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
> > > index 826b164..375a2e4 100644
> > > --- a/fs/block_dev.c
> > > +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
> > > @@ -497,6 +497,26 @@ long bdev_direct_access(struct block_device *bdev, struct blk_dax_ctl *dax)
> > > }
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_direct_access);
> > >
> > > +int blk_reserve_space(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t nr_sects)
> > > +{
> > > + const struct block_device_operations *ops = bdev->bd_disk->fops;
> > > +
> > > + if (!ops->reserve_space)
> > > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > + return ops->reserve_space(bdev, nr_sects);
> > > +}
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_reserve_space);
> >
> > Wouldn't be better to have this function name standardized accordingly to the
> > next one? Something like blk_set_reserved_space() maybe?
>
> Personally I see no point in wrappers like this. We don't add
> wrappers for ops methods in any other layers of the stack,
> filesystems are quite capable of checking if the method is available
> directly, so it seems pretty pointless to me...
>
I don't have too much of a preference, personally. I think these were
slapped together fairly quickly just to get some kind of mechanism
exposed. I was thinking more of combining them into a single method that
takes a signed value for a reservation delta rather than an absolute
value and simultaneously supports the ability to adjust or retrieve the
current reservation.
Unless I hear other thoughts or objections, I can probably clean that up
and drop the wrappers for a subsequent post as I have some other fixes
pending as well.
Brian
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
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