On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:14:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Block devices use i_devices inode field to track all inodes that > reference a particular block device (through i_bdev field) so that this > reference can be removed when block device inode is being evicted from > memory. However we get a reference to the block device (in fact an inode > holding the block device structure) when setting up i_bdev in > bd_acquire() and we drop the reference only in bd_forget() when clearing > i_bdev. Thus inode holding block device structure can be evicted only > after all inodes referencing it are evicted and the whole excercise with > i_devices is pointless. Remove the i_devices handling. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
