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Message-ID: <20141012185316.GQ7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:53:16 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	xfs@....sgi.com, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.de>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12 v2] Moving i_dquot out of struct inode

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 06:34:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I still very much disagree with the s_inode_fields indirection.  Please
> find a patch below to remove it, and use a get_dquots super_block
> operation instead.  This leads to less and better readable code,
> and serves 4 bytes in every inode in the system.  Additionally the
> indirection could easily be optimized away by directly passing the
> dquot array in various functions, but for now I'd like to keep it
> simple.

Indeed.  This "array of offsets" approach is asking for trouble.  Please,
don't go there - playing that way with type safety is a bad idea.
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