Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] xfs: reuse iomap delalloc code for COW fork reservation

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On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:54:07PM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> COW fork reservation (delayed allocation) is implemented in
> xfs_reflink_reserve_cow() and is generally based on the traditional data
> fork delalloc logic in xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay(). In preparation for
> further changes to implement more aggressive COW fork preallocation,
> refactor the COW reservation code to reuse xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay()
> for data fork allocation as well as COW fork reservation. This patch
> does not change behavior.

I'm still trying to understand the point of patches 1-3:  there is no
functionality, but a lot of new code is added to reuse some other code.

How would patch 5 look like without that "reuse"?
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