linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/4] ext4: move

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Message-ID: <20120926163036.GA18983@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:30:36 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, a-fujita@...jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ext4: move_extent code cleanup

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 04:23:51PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> - Remove usless checks, because it is too late to check that inode != NULL
>   at the moment it was referenced several times.
> - Double lock routines looks very ugly and locking ordering relays on
>   order of i_ino, but other kernel code relay on order of pointers.
>   Let's  make them simple and clean.
> - check that inodes belongs to the same SB as soon as possible.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>

Applied, thanks!!

						- Ted
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