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| author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2007-10-15 17:29:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2008-01-25 09:07:16 +0100 |
| commit | f91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce (patch) | |
| tree | cda8095f9befd25cbfaf5f63a4c8ca26870d45ca /fs/gfs2/log.h | |
| parent | [GFS2] Use ->page_mkwrite() for mmap() (diff) | |
| download | linux-f91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce.tar.xz linux-f91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce.zip | |
[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/log.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/log.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.h b/fs/gfs2/log.h index dae282400627..24e7161486e2 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/log.h +++ b/fs/gfs2/log.h @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ struct buffer_head *gfs2_log_fake_buf(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct buffer_head *real); void gfs2_log_flush(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_glock *gl); void gfs2_log_commit(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_trans *trans); -void gfs2_remove_from_ail(struct address_space *mapping, struct gfs2_bufdata *bd); +void gfs2_remove_from_ail(struct gfs2_bufdata *bd); void gfs2_log_shutdown(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp); void gfs2_meta_syncfs(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp); |