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From: tytso@mit.edu
To: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart V2
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:23:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100526132352.GA29528@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr0ilw3n.fsf_-_@openvz.org>

One more thing.  Why do you need EXT4_STATE_EXT_TRUNC?

The only place which tests it in any kind of real way is
ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart(), and it is only called by one
function, ext4_ext_rm_leaf(), and *it* is only called in one place,
inside ext4_ext_remove_space(), and *it* surronds the call with
ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_EXT_TRUNC) and
ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_EXT_TRUNC).

And while a truncate is happening, no other block allocation can
happen, so the test in ext4_ext_map_blocks() doesn't seem to do much.
(It only clears STATE_EXT_TRUNC if it is set and if the flags
EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CREATE is set.  I'm not sure what the point of that
is, either.)

					- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-26 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-22  4:31 [PATCH] ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart Dmitry Monakhov
2010-04-22  7:33 ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-04-26 16:09 ` Jan Kara
2010-05-25 13:32 ` tytso
2010-05-25 14:28   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-25 21:38     ` tytso
2010-05-26  8:53       ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-25 21:44     ` tytso
2010-05-26  9:12       ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-26 11:51         ` [PATCH] ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart V2 Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-26 13:23           ` tytso [this message]
2010-05-26 13:46             ` Jan Kara
2010-05-26 14:23             ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-26 14:45               ` tytso
2010-05-26 14:47                 ` tytso
2010-05-26 17:22                   ` Dmitry Monakhov
2010-05-25 13:55 ` [PATCH] ext4: restart ext4_ext_remove_space() after transaction restart tytso

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