Re: [PATCH 06/21] ocfs2: drop vmtruncate

From: Joel Becker
Date: Wed Oct 24 2012 - 20:18:18 EST


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:48:38PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> 2012/10/23 Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:58:42AM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> >> 2012/10/23 Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 02:19:00PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> >> >> Removed vmtruncate
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > Do you want me to pull this, or are you going to send it with your set?
> >> >
> >> > Joel
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'd prefer to push all via Al's tree since there is a VFS change.
> >
> > SGTM. Thanks!
> >
> > Joel
> >
>
> I've got a doubt and I ask to ocfs2 expert :) It seems i_size_write()
> and truncate_inode_pages() and so on, they are already called in each
> path of setattr for a size change, so maybe we can remove
> truncate_setsize() and simply to remove the vmtuncate code, can you
> give me your opinion?

Actually, I have to revisit this, because Chrisoph points out
your adjusting i_size outside of a transaction.

Joel

> Thanks.
>
> Marco
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