Re: [RFC PATCH 60/62] orangefs: make use of ->free_inode()

Al Viro
2019-04-22T23:10:42Z

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 2:14 PM Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com> wrote:
> >
> > I applied your "new inode method: ->free_inode()" and
> > "orangefs: make use of ->free_inode()" to our pagecache
> > branch (I hope to get it pulled in the next merge window).
>
> Actually, please don't.
>
> Exactly because this needs that common vfs patch, I'd really prefer to
> get it all through Al's tree, rather than have individual filesystems
> apply their own copies of the common infrastructure commit, and then
> apply their changes on top of that.
>
> I can easily handle any trivial conflicts this causes, so that's not a
> reason to have each filesystem do it either.
>
> So if this is at the top of your tree, can you just "git reset" it
> away and I'll get all the filesystems (and the common infrastructure
> commit) all together from Al.

What's more, seeing the changes in orangefs tree I would rather have
static void orangefs_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct orangefs_inode_s *orangefs_inode = ORANGEFS_I(inode);
kmem_cache_free(orangefs_inode_cache, orangefs_inode);
}

in that series; not only less noise on merge, but with additional
uses of orangefs_inode in the body from orangefs tree changes
keeping the local variable clearly makes sense...