Re: [PATCH] btrfs: btrfs_backref_link_edge() cleanup

From: Daniel Vacek
Date: Mon May 19 2025 - 06:39:03 EST


On Thu, 15 May 2025 at 16:47, David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please write more descriptive subject lines, related to what is being
> cleaned up, and not just a generic "function() cleanup".
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 03:12:39PM +0200, Daniel Vacek wrote:
> > This function is always called with the LINK_LOWER argument. Thus we can
> > simplify it and remove the LINK_LOWER and LINK_UPPER macros.
> >
> > The last call with LINK_UPPER was removed with commit
> > 0097422c0dfe0a ("btrfs: remove clone_backref_node() from relocation")
>
> While removing the code is ok, looking to the git history I think
> there's probably more, related to the node linking. Here it's removing
> one half (LINK_UPPER).

I'm not sure what you mean here. I mentioned the commit you suggested.
Checking the rest of edge linking I don't see how it could be
trivially simplified further.