Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] xfs: Allow block allocator to take an alignment hint

[John Garry]

On 12/03/2025 19:51, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > We are never getting aligned extents wrt write length, and so have to fall
> > back to the SW-based atomic write always. That is not what we want.
> Please add a comment to explain this where the XFS_BMAPI_EXTSZALIGN
> flag is set, because it's not at all obvious what it is doing or why
> it is needed from the name of the variable or the implementation.

ok, fine. But that is as long as we just are doing the alignment for 
XFS_BMAPI_EXTSZALIGN (and not always, as Christoph queried).

Thanks,
John