linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] mtd: ubi: Free peb's synchronously for fastmap

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Date:	Tue, 8 Apr 2014 13:44:03 +0000
From:	"Bityutskiy, Artem" <artem.bityutskiy@...el.com>
To:	"tlinder@...eaurora.org" <tlinder@...eaurora.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mtd: ubi: Free peb's synchronously for fastmap

On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 16:42 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 11:01 +0300, Tanya Brokhman wrote:
> > At first mount it's possible that there are not enough free PEBs since
> > there are PEB's pending to be erased. In such scenario, fm_pool (which is
> > the pool from which user required PEBs are allocated) will be empty.
> > Try fixing the above described situation by synchronously performing
> > pending erase work, thus produce another free PEB.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tatyana Brokhman <tlinder@...eaurora.org>
> 
> Pushed to linux-ubifs.git / master, thanks!

Oh, sorry, this one I actually _dropped_. Would you please rather
re-structure the code to avoid duplication. E.g., do what Richard
suggested.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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