summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>2011-12-18 20:00:12 +0000
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>2012-01-17 15:10:19 -0600
commit2813d682e8e6a278f94817429afd46b30875bb6e (patch)
treed865b04ec89076b692a922b7f5fced9be0458f47 /fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
parentce7ae151ddada3dbf67301464343c154903166b3 (diff)
downloadlinux-2813d682e8e6a278f94817429afd46b30875bb6e.tar.bz2
xfs: remove the i_new_size field in struct xfs_inode
Now that we use the VFS i_size field throughout XFS there is no need for the i_new_size field any more given that the VFS i_size field gets updated in ->write_end before unlocking the page, and thus is always uptodate when writeback could see a page. Removing i_new_size also has the advantage that we will never have to trim back di_size during a failed buffered write, given that it never gets updated past i_size. Note that currently the generic direct I/O code only updates i_size after calling our end_io handler, which requires a small workaround to make sure di_size actually makes it to disk. I hope to fix this properly in the generic code. A downside is that we lose the support for parallel non-overlapping O_DIRECT appending writes that recently was added. I don't think keeping the complex and fragile i_new_size infrastructure for this is a good tradeoff - if we really care about parallel appending writers we should investigate turning the iolock into a range lock, which would also allow for parallel non-overlapping buffered writers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 3b5b78aa3b87..8c3e46394d48 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ xfs_inode_alloc(
ip->i_update_core = 0;
ip->i_delayed_blks = 0;
memset(&ip->i_d, 0, sizeof(xfs_icdinode_t));
- ip->i_new_size = 0;
return ip;
}