linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 18/23] ext4: Rename ext4_free_blks

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Message-Id: <BC2E91B2-7E48-47F4-B978-B90ACC7B0ADC@dilger.ca>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2011 17:06:37 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/23] ext4: Rename ext4_free_blks_{count,set}() to refer to clusters

On 2011-07-06, at 10:36 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The field bg_free_free_blocks_count_{lo,high} in the block group

s/free_free/free_/

> descriptor has been repurposed to hold the number of free clusters for
> bigalloc functions.  So rename the functions so it makes it easier to
> read and audit the block allocation and block freeing code.
> 
> Note: at this point in bigalloc development we doesn't support
> online-resize, so this also makes it really obvious all of the places
> we need to fix up to add support for online resize.

Cheers, Andreas





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