[PATCH 1/4] xfs: kill XBF_FS_MANAGED buffers

Alex Elder aelder at sgi.com
Fri Sep 10 16:17:45 CDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 01:12 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their
> lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache.
> We currently hash these buffers, which makes cleanup and hash
> walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to
> unhashed buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_noaddr(), and remove the
> XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache.

I've looked this over and it looks good to me.
I agree with all of Christoph's comments from
the other day.  I'll look for your update.

					-Alex

> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

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