On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 09:13:01AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > xfs_itruncate_start is a rather length wrapper that evaluates to a call > to xfs_ioend_wait and xfs_tosspages, and only has two callers. > > Instead of using the complicated checks left over from IRIX where we > can to truncate the pagecache just call xfs_tosspages > (aka truncate_inode_pages) directly as we want to get rid of all data > after i_size, and truncate_inode_pages handles incorrect alignments > and too large offsets just fine. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Looks sane given that the complexity is necessary for handling the XFS_ITRUNC_MAYBE case correctly, and that flag is unused and therefore never needed in the Linux code base. It also means that xfs_free_eofblocks() won't get hung up on IO in progress needlessly. Well spotted! Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs