[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 3/6] Shift allocation ocfs2_live_connection to user_connect()

Mark Fasheh mfasheh at suse.de
Mon Nov 4 14:10:50 PST 2013


On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:46:01PM -0600, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> On 11/03/2013 05:14 PM, Mark Fasheh wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
>>> We perform this because the DLM recovery callbacks will require
>>> the ocfs2_live_connection structure to record the node information
>>> when dlm_new_lockspace() is updated.
>>
>> Ok but what I see below is that you took the alloc out of
>> ocfs2_live_connecion_new() and just do it above that call in
>> user_cluster_connect(), then call ocfs2_live_connection_new().
>>
>> Aside from that though this doesn't seem to add new functionality, which is
>> fine if the later patches use what you've done here but I don't where this
>> change has made any impact on patches 4-6. So my guess is that there's one
>> of two things going on here:
>>
>> 1) This change was just left in by accident in which case you can just
>> remove this patch from your series.
>>
>> 2) I made an error reading the later patches and this _is_ used :)
>> If that's the case do me a favor and point out what I missed :)
>
> When dlm_new_lockspace is called, it calls recover_done() to inform our 
> node number. This is recorded in the live_connection data structure and  
> needs ocfs2_live_connection to be available before the call to 
> dlm_lockspce_new(). I will put this information in the next series.

Ok great thanks for clearing that up. Putting that in the description
wouldn't hurt the next review - good call.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh



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