linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/16] writeback: remove redundant list initialization

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Message-ID: <20100718064449.GB23811@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:44:49 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 02/16] writeback: remove redundant list
 initialization

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:44:58PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
> 
> We do not have to call 'INIT_LIST_HEAD()' for list elements
> ('bdi->bdi_list') before inserting them to the 'bdi_pending_list',
> because 'list_add_tail' will initialize the element anyway. Thus,
> kill the redundant initialization.

Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

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