linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Fix credit estimate for final inode freeing

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Date:   Sun, 20 Oct 2019 21:07:23 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] ext4: Fix credit estimate for final inode freeing

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:05:50AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Estimate for the number of credits needed for final freeing of inode in
> ext4_evict_inode() was to small. We may modify 4 blocks (inode & sb for
> orphan deletion, bitmap & group descriptor for inode freeing) and not
> just 3.

The modification for the inode should already be included in the
calculation for ext4_blocks_for_truncate(), no?  So we only need 3
extra blocks (sb, inode bitmap, and bg descriptor for the inode).

      	     	  		    - Ted