linux-kernel - Re: lustre: question about lov

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2015 07:58:21 +0000
From:	"Drokin, Oleg" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
CC:	"Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"<HPDD-discuss@...ts.01.org>" <HPDD-discuss@...1.01.org>,
	"<devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lustre: question about lov_request.c


On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:24 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:

>>  You are right, set_pga seems to be a dead member. It was alive a once, but somehow not fully removed now,
>>  so it's safe to drop the whole if and also the struct member itself.
>>  set_oabufs could be dropped as well.
> 
> Looking further, in the same function I also don't see any other uses of
> the tested field in:
> 
>                if (req->rq_oi.oi_md)
>                        OBD_FREE_LARGE(req->rq_oi.oi_md, req->rq_buflen);
> 
>        if (set->set_lockh)
> 		lov_llh_put(set->set_lockh);
> 
> Can these be dropped as well?

Yes, these two seems to be on their way out too, so please feel free to remove them.

Thanks.

Bye,
    Oleg--
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