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ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback

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The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
blocks is committed.  Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
when blocks are allocated or freed.  A much better way of doing things
is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
to be freed directly to the transaction structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-16 20:00:24 -04:00
parent 22359f5745
commit 3e624fc72f
6 changed files with 29 additions and 75 deletions
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fs/ext4/mballoc.h
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@@ -269,8 +269,6 @@ struct buffer_head *read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *, ext4_group_t);
static void ext4_mb_generate_from_pa(struct super_block *sb, void *bitmap,
ext4_group_t group);
static void ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction(struct super_block *, handle_t *);
static void ext4_mb_free_committed_blocks(struct super_block *);
static void ext4_mb_return_to_preallocation(struct inode *inode,
struct ext4_buddy *e4b, sector_t block,
int count);
@@ -278,6 +276,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_put_pa(struct ext4_allocation_context *,
struct super_block *, struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa);
static int ext4_mb_init_per_dev_proc(struct super_block *sb);
static int ext4_mb_destroy_per_dev_proc(struct super_block *sb);
static void release_blocks_on_commit(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *txn);
static inline void ext4_lock_group(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t group)