[patch 03/12] xfs: remove xfs_trans_unlocked_item
Mark Tinguely
tinguely at sgi.com
Mon Jan 23 08:31:00 CST 2012
On 01/-10/63 13:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> There is no reason to wake up log space waiters when unlocking inodes or
> dquots, and the commit log has no explanation for this function either.
>
> Given that we now have exact log space wakeups everywhere we can assume
> to reason for this function was to paper over log space races in earlier
> XFS versions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch at lst.de>
I agree, these unlock won't change the amount of available log space.
I did not find the exact reason for these original calls the the log
space wake routines.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>
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