On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:36:35PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 01:19 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:

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While looking at commit 8ddeeae51f2f197b4fafcba117ee8191b49d843e,
I got the impression that this commit couldn't fix anything, since the 
"size" variable can't be changed before "fit" gets used.

Is there any big thinko, or is the patch below that slightly simplifies 
update_size() semantically equivalent to the current code?

No, this patch is broken.  Where it fails is specifically the case where
you want to autofit the largest possible size, you have different size
devices, and the first device is not the smallest.  When you hit the
first device, you will set size, then as you repeat the ITERATE_RDEV
loop, when you hit the smaller device, size will be non-0 and you'll
then trigger the later if and return -ENOSPC.  In the case of autofit,
you have to preserve the fit variable instead of looking at size so you
know whether or not to modify the size when you hit a smaller device
later in the list.
...

OK, sorry, I've got my thinko:

ITERATE_RDEV() is a loop.

That's what I missed.

cu
Adrian

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