Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 16:09:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] iget_locked [5/6] |
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On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jan Harkes wrote:
> > This patch starts taking i_ino dependencies out of the VFS. The FS > provided test and set callbacks become responsible for testing and > setting inode->i_ino. > > Because most filesystems are based on 32-bit unique inode numbers > several functions are duplicated to keep iget_locked a fast path. We > can avoid unnecessary pointer dereferences and function calls for this > specific case.
I'd suggest putting the comment above + who's which counterpart into inode.c. Otherwise - fine with me.
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