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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 13:32:37 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, 
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, 
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	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>, Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>, 
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, 
	linux-aio@kvack.org, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/32] fs: Move metadata bh tracking from address_space
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 11:33:49AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this patch series cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in
> metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes, moves the tracking into dedicated
> structure in filesystem-private part of the inode (so that we don't use
> private_list, private_data, and private_lock in struct address_space), and also
> moves couple other users of private_data and private_list so these are removed
> from struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes.  I

Yes! I love it.