From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: [PATCH 05/12] ext4: Remove unnecessary wait for extent conversion in ext4_fallocate() Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:39 +0100 Message-ID: <1358510446-19174-6-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> References: <1358510446-19174-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara To: Ted Tso Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35014 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751187Ab3ARMA6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:00:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1358510446-19174-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore, ext4_fallocate() is free to operate on the inode while there are still some extent conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way. Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index f1ce33a..5c7a46a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4406,8 +4406,6 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) if (len <= EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN << blkbits) flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE; - /* Prevent race condition between unwritten */ - ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode); retry: while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) { map.m_lblk = map.m_lblk + ret; -- 1.7.1