Re: [RFC PATCH] ext4: convert swap_inode_data() over to use swap() on most of the fields

From: Jan Kara
Date: Thu Jan 05 2017 - 02:26:30 EST


On Wed 04-01-17 15:21:28, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 16:43 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Tue 20-12-16 10:55:41, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > >
> > > For some odd reason, it forces a byte-by-byte copy of each field. A
> > > plain old swap() on most of these fields would be more efficient. We
> > > do need to retain one memswap however as that field is an array.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Looks good to me. You can add:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Honza
> >
>
> Thanks. Yeah, it's certainly nothing critical -- just something I
> noticed while looking at the i_version rework. Seems like it might be
> good to let soak in next for v4.11?

Yeah, it is definitely 4.11 material. I believe he'll pick up the patch to
his tree once he starts accumulating patches for the next merge window.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR