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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
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