linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/6 v2] fs: Provide function to unmap metadata for a range of blocks

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Message-ID: <20161104203241.GA11764@kernel.dk>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:32:41 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@...l.ru>,
        linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v2] fs: Provide function to unmap metadata for a
 range of blocks

On Fri, Nov 04 2016, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've noticed that in several places we need to unmap metadata in buffer cache
> for a range of blocks and we do it by iterating over all blocks in given range.
> Let's provide a helper function for that and implement it in a way more
> efficient for larger ranges of blocks. Also cleanup other uses of
> unmap_unerlying_metadata().  The patches passed xfstests for ext2 and ext4.
> 
> Jens, can you merge these patches if they look fine to you?

Looks clean to me. There's a small typo ("used to used") in the comment
for patch #1, but I'll just correct that manually before applying.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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