[PATCH 12/18] xfs: use unhashed buffers for size checks

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Sep 14 10:00:19 CDT 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:56:11PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> When we are checking we can access the last block of each device, we
> do not need to use cached buffers as they will be tossed away
> immediately. Use uncached buffers for size checks so that all IO
> prior to full in-memory structure initialisation does not use the
> buffer cache.

Looks good,


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>




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