[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 08/18] ocfs2: Use metadata-specific ocfs2_journal_access_*() functions.

[Tao Ma]

Joel Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:31:09AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>>> 	But then you start dereferencing the path bh list.  That's
>>> breaks the abstraction of the path structure.  It also drops the
>>> consistency of always using ocfs2_path_bh_journal_access() for paths.
>>> Conversely, there is no real loss to calling
>>> ocfs2_path_bh_journal_access(); the extra function call is
>>> insignificant.
>> fail enough. actually this piece of code make me think of the use of 
>> ocfs2_journal_access_eb.
>> in ocfs2_rotate_subtree_left:
>> 	if (le16_to_cpu(right_leaf_el->l_next_free_rec) > 1) {
>> 		ret = ocfs2_journal_access_eb(handle, inode,
>> 					path_leaf_bh(right_path),
>> 					OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
>> So according to your policy, we should change it to 
>> ocfs2_path_bh_journal_access also? ;)
> 
> 	Nope, because it's not based on an index, it's using the
> path_leaf_bh() func.  I know you were being humourous here ;-)
I am really somewhat stubborn here. :)
See ocfs2_rotate_rightmost_leaf_left. For leaf bh, you can use
ret = ocfs2_path_bh_journal_access(handle, inode, path,
				   path_num_items(path) - 1);


Not a big issue. So you can leave it here.

Regards,
Tao