linux-ext4 - [PATCH 05/12] ext4: Remove unnecessary wait for extent conversion in ext4

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:39 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 05/12] ext4: Remove unnecessary wait for extent conversion in ext4_fallocate()

Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore, ext4_fallocate()
is free to operate on the inode while there are still some extent
conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way.

Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index f1ce33a..5c7a46a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4406,8 +4406,6 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
 	if (len <= EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN << blkbits)
 		flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE;
 
-	/* Prevent race condition between unwritten */
-	ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode);
 retry:
 	while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) {
 		map.m_lblk = map.m_lblk + ret;
-- 
1.7.1

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