linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4/mballoc: No need to generate from free list

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Message-Id: <169661554696.173366.4478647041762605320.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri,  6 Oct 2023 14:06:27 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Wang Jianjian <wangjianjian0@...mail.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/mballoc: No need to generate from free list


On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:56:31 +0800, Wang Jianjian wrote:
> Commit 7a2fcbf7f85('ext4: don't use blocks freed but
> not yet committed in buddy cache init) walk the rbtree of
> freed data and mark them free in buddy to avoid reuse them
> before journal committing them, However, it is unnecessary to
> do that, because we have extra page references to buddy and bitmap
> pages, they will be released iff journal has committed and after
> process freed data.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] ext4/mballoc: No need to generate from free list
      commit: ebf6cb7c6e1241984f75f29f1bdbfa2fe7168f88

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>