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Message-Id: <1365456754-29373-9-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon,  8 Apr 2013 23:32:13 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Ted Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 08/29] jbd2: Remove outdated comment

The comment about credit estimates isn't true anymore. We do what the
comment describes now.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c |   10 ----------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 81df09c..74cfbd3 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -283,16 +283,6 @@ repeat:
 	 * reduce the free space arbitrarily.  Be careful to account for
 	 * those buffers when checkpointing.
 	 */
-
-	/*
-	 * @@@ AKPM: This seems rather over-defensive.  We're giving commit
-	 * a _lot_ of headroom: 1/4 of the journal plus the size of
-	 * the committing transaction.  Really, we only need to give it
-	 * committing_transaction->t_outstanding_credits plus "enough" for
-	 * the log control blocks.
-	 * Also, this test is inconsistent with the matching one in
-	 * jbd2_journal_extend().
-	 */
 	if (__jbd2_log_space_left(journal) < jbd_space_needed(journal)) {
 		jbd_debug(2, "Handle %p waiting for checkpoint...\n", handle);
 		atomic_sub(nblocks, &transaction->t_outstanding_credits);
-- 
1.7.1

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