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Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:42:15 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, hch@....de,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] blockdev: Don't use i_devices inode field

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Block devices use i_devices inode field to track all inodes that
> reference a particular block device (through i_bdev field) so that this
> reference can be removed when block device inode is being evicted from
> memory. However we get a reference to the block device (in fact an inode
> holding the block device structure) when setting up i_bdev in
> bd_acquire() and we drop the reference only in bd_forget() when clearing
> i_bdev. Thus inode holding block device structure can be evicted only
> after all inodes referencing it are evicted and the whole excercise with
> i_devices is pointless. Remove the i_devices handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Looks good,

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