linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 07/12] ext4: Simplify list handling in ext4_do_flush_completed

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Message-ID: <20130128145148.GG22711@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:51:48 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] ext4: Simplify list handling in
 ext4_do_flush_completed_IO()

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:00:41PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> The function splices i_completed_io_list to its private list first. From that
> moment on we don't need any lock for working with io_end structures because all
> io_end structure on the list are only our own. So we can remove the other two
> lists in the function and free io_end immediately after we are done with it.
> 
> CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, applied.

						- Ted
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