linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 06/12] ext4: Move work from io

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Message-ID: <20130128144528.GF22711@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:45:28 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] ext4: Move work from io_end to inode

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:00:40PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> It does not make much sense to have struct work in ext4_io_end_t because we
> always use it for only one ext4_io_end_t per inode (the first one in the
> i_completed_io list). So just move the structure to inode itself.  This also
> allows for a small simplification in processing io_end structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

(Note, I haven't applied patch 5 yet because it has a dependency on
patch #4, and I'm waiting to hear whether we should apply this given
the race condition which Dmitry has found.  It sounds like it's a
pre-existing condition, and not a regression, but I want get a
confirmation that applying patches 5 and 6 won't make things worse...)

	     	  	   	     	   - Ted
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