[Cluster-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] gfs2: Get rid of gfs2_set_nlink

[Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>]

Remove gfs2_set_nlink which prevents the link count of an inode to
become non-zero once it has reached zero.  The following changes will
reduce the amount of waiting on glocks when an inode is evicted from
memory.  With that, an inode can become reallocated before all the
remote-unlink callbacks from a previous delete have been processed,
which causes the link count to change from zero to non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/glops.c | 28 +---------------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glops.c b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
index 5e69636..263b20f 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
@@ -329,32 +329,6 @@ static int inode_go_demote_ok(const struct gfs2_glock *gl)
 	return 1;
 }
 
-/**
- * gfs2_set_nlink - Set the inode's link count based on on-disk info
- * @inode: The inode in question
- * @nlink: The link count
- *
- * If the link count has hit zero, it must never be raised, whatever the
- * on-disk inode might say. When new struct inodes are created the link
- * count is set to 1, so that we can safely use this test even when reading
- * in on disk information for the first time.
- */
-
-static void gfs2_set_nlink(struct inode *inode, u32 nlink)
-{
-	/*
-	 * We will need to review setting the nlink count here in the
-	 * light of the forthcoming ro bind mount work. This is a reminder
-	 * to do that.
-	 */
-	if ((inode->i_nlink != nlink) && (inode->i_nlink != 0)) {
-		if (nlink == 0)
-			clear_nlink(inode);
-		else
-			set_nlink(inode, nlink);
-	}
-}
-
 static int gfs2_dinode_in(struct gfs2_inode *ip, const void *buf)
 {
 	const struct gfs2_dinode *str = buf;
@@ -376,7 +350,7 @@ static int gfs2_dinode_in(struct gfs2_inode *ip, const void *buf)
 
 	i_uid_write(&ip->i_inode, be32_to_cpu(str->di_uid));
 	i_gid_write(&ip->i_inode, be32_to_cpu(str->di_gid));
-	gfs2_set_nlink(&ip->i_inode, be32_to_cpu(str->di_nlink));
+	set_nlink(&ip->i_inode, be32_to_cpu(str->di_nlink));
 	i_size_write(&ip->i_inode, be64_to_cpu(str->di_size));
 	gfs2_set_inode_blocks(&ip->i_inode, be64_to_cpu(str->di_blocks));
 	atime.tv_sec = be64_to_cpu(str->di_atime);
-- 
2.7.5