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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2007-10-15 16:29:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-25 08:07:16 +0000 |
| commit | f91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce (patch) | |
| tree | cda8095f9befd25cbfaf5f63a4c8ca26870d45ca /fs/gfs2/meta_io.h | |
| parent | 3cc3f710ce0effe397b830826a1a081fa81f11c7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce.tar.bz2 | |
[GFS2] Remove useless i_cache from inodes
The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks
used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked
up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places
where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been
the cause of many bugs.
In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the
disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes
it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which
would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/meta_io.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/meta_io.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.h b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.h index b7048222ebb4..73e3b1c76fe1 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.h @@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ void gfs2_remove_from_journal(struct buffer_head *bh, struct gfs2_trans *tr, void gfs2_meta_wipe(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen); -void gfs2_meta_cache_flush(struct gfs2_inode *ip); int gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer(struct gfs2_inode *ip, int height, u64 num, int new, struct buffer_head **bhp); |