Re: [PATCH] UPDATED3: types fixup for mballoc

On Jan 08, 2008  13:54 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:

Note, the calculations Andreas & I were discussing only work properly
for stripe <= blocks per group... I don't know if we'd need to enforce
that at mount time?

I think that would be prudent, but can be done in a separate patch.
If the RAID stripe width is so large that one has to do read-modify-write
for a whole group write (8MB @ 1kB blocksize, 128MB @ 4kB blocksize)
then I don't think we can use that to align allocations.

I think Aneesh might be working on getting s_raid_stripe_width from the
superblock, and we may as well do the sanity checking in the same patch.
If sb->s_raid_stripe_width > EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP, then as a fallback
I'd suggest using sb->s_raid_stride if < EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP, or just
ignoring both if unsuitable.

I ran into a potential overflow in ext4_mb_scan_aligned, 
and went looking for others in mballoc.  This patch hits a 
few spots, compile-tested only at this point, comments welcome.

This patch:

changes fe_len to an int, I don't think we need it to be a long,
looking at how it's used (should it be a grpblk_t?)  Also change
anything assigned to return value of mb_find_extent, since it returns
fe_len.

changes anything that does groupno * EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP
or pa->pa_pstart + <whatever> to an ext4_fsblk_t

avoids 64-bit divides & modulos, and...

fixes up any related formats

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <redacted>

You can add a "Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger [off-list ref]" too.
The revised calcs look good to me.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.