Re: [PATCH v1 4/8] md/raid5: Make common label for schedule/retry in raid5_make_request()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 10:45:07AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Cleanup the code to make a common label for the schedule,
> prepare_to_wait() and retry path. This drops the do_prepare boolean.
> 
> This requires moveing the prepare_to_wait() above the
> read_seqcount_begin() call on the retry path. However there's no
> appearant requirement for ordering between these two calls.
> 
> This should hopefully be easier to read rather than following the
> extra do_prepare boolean, but it will also be used in a subsequent
> patch to add more code common to all schedule() calls.

Hm.  Maybe it is marginally better, but I always hate gotos inside
of loop bodys.  What prevents us from factoring most of the loop
body into a helper function?