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Date:	Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:23:28 +0800
From:	Shen Feng <shen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: remove ext4_new_blocks() and call ext4_mb_new_blocks()
 directly

I think we can merge balloc.c and mballoc.c since ext4 now uses mballoc only.

on 12/08/2008 03:33 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> There was only one caller of the compatibility function
> ext4_new_blocks(), in balloc.c's ext4_alloc_blocks().  Change it to
> call ext4_mb_new_blocks() directly, and remove ext4_new_blocks()
> altogether.  This cleans up the code, by removing two extra functions
> from the call chain, and hopefully saving some stack usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
> ---
>  fs/ext4/balloc.c |   20 --------------------
>  fs/ext4/ext4.h   |    3 ---
>  fs/ext4/inode.c  |   16 +++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> index 9ce2fcd..02e8ce4 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
> @@ -741,26 +741,6 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  	return ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle, inode, goal, &count, errp);
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * ext4_new_blocks() -- allocate data blocks
> - *
> - * @handle:             handle to this transaction
> - * @inode:              file inode
> - * @goal:               given target block(filesystem wide)
> - * @count:		total number of blocks need
> - * @errp:               error code
> - *
> - * Return 1st allocated block numberon success, *count stores total account
> - * error stores in errp pointer
> - */
> -
> -ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> -				ext4_lblk_t iblock, ext4_fsblk_t goal,
> -				unsigned long *count, int *errp)
> -{
> -	return do_blk_alloc(handle, inode, iblock, goal, count, errp, 0);
> -}
> -
>  /**
>   * ext4_count_free_blocks() -- count filesystem free blocks
>   * @sb:		superblock
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index 8370ffd..74cb395 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -1002,9 +1002,6 @@ extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_block(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  			ext4_fsblk_t goal, int *errp);
>  extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  			ext4_fsblk_t goal, unsigned long *count, int *errp);
> -extern ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> -					ext4_lblk_t iblock, ext4_fsblk_t goal,
> -					unsigned long *count, int *errp);
>  extern int ext4_claim_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, s64 nblocks);
>  extern int ext4_has_free_blocks(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi, s64 nblocks);
>  extern void ext4_free_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 2a3804e..d972b4c 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -546,6 +546,7 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  				int indirect_blks, int blks,
>  				ext4_fsblk_t new_blocks[4], int *err)
>  {
> +	struct ext4_allocation_request ar;
>  	int target, i;
>  	unsigned long count = 0, blk_allocated = 0;
>  	int index = 0;
> @@ -594,10 +595,15 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  	if (!target)
>  		goto allocated;
>  	/* Now allocate data blocks */
> -	count = target;
> -	/* allocating blocks for data blocks */
> -	current_block = ext4_new_blocks(handle, inode, iblock,
> -						goal, &count, err);
> +	memset(&ar, 0, sizeof(ar));
> +	ar.inode = inode;
> +	ar.goal = goal;
> +	ar.len = target;
> +	ar.logical = iblock;
> +	ar.flags = EXT4_MB_HINT_DATA;
> +
> +	current_block = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, &ar, err);
> +
>  	if (*err && (target == blks)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * if the allocation failed and we didn't allocate
> @@ -613,7 +619,7 @@ static int ext4_alloc_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
>  		 */
>  			new_blocks[index] = current_block;
>  		}
> -		blk_allocated += count;
> +		blk_allocated += ar.len;
>  	}
>  allocated:
>  	/* total number of blocks allocated for direct blocks */

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