Re: [PATCH 11/17] xfs: merge xfs_inode_flush into xfs_fs_write_inode

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:42:25PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:31:47AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Spliting the task for a VFS-induced inode flush into two functions doesn't
> > make any sense, so merge the two functions dealing with it.
> 
> I just realised that we should really be calling xfs_inode_flush() from
> xfs_sync_inodes_ag() - it open codes xfs_inode_flush() and doesn't
> have any of the non-blocking flush code for async flushes...

Given that we'll hopefully do batched flushes driven directly from
the sync code re-introducing the helper now just to rip it out again
a little later doesn't seem to useful to me.  And the calling
conventions for xfs_inode_flush were rather odd to start with anyway.