[Gluster-devel] regarding gluster msg ids

[Atin Mukherjee]

On 04/04/2014 01:37 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
> hi Shyam,
>     Instead of printing numbers as msg-ids, could we print the stringification of macro itself as the msg-id? Reasons why I feel this is better:
>     - No need to worry about msg-id range segment overlaps as we are not dealing with numbers anymore.
>     - macro re-use in same file will cause compilation error. Different msg-id.h files will have different prefixes for msg-ids so there should not be any collisions across components.
>     - We can choose to give easy-to-remember msg-ids like AFR-SPLIT-BRAIN if we want to. No need to lookup what msg-id means etc.
> 
> I sent a first-cut patch at: http://review.gluster.org/7398
> 
> TODO: Remove segment related macros if you guys also like the change.
> 
> This is one of the messages with and without patch above:
> [2014-04-04 07:08:53.113969] I [MSGID: glusterfsd_msg_30] [glusterfsd.c:1914:main] 0-glusterd: Started running glusterd version 3git (args: glusterd --debug)
> [2014-04-04 07:10:49.687053] I [MSGID: 100030] [glusterfsd.c:1914:main] 0-glusterd: Started running glusterd version 3git (args: glusterd --debug)
> 
+1, I do believe this will be a better approach considering the segment
clash and code maintenance.

--Atin
> 
> Pranith
> 
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