Re: [PATCH 0/32] fs: Move metadata bh tracking from address_space

Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Mar 2026 13:32:37 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.aio.general,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel.mm
Message-ID <20260304-badeort-amtieren-d02d2e06f2c5@brauner>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 11:33:49AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this patch series cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in
> metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes, moves the tracking into dedicated
> structure in filesystem-private part of the inode (so that we don't use
> private_list, private_data, and private_lock in struct address_space), and also
> moves couple other users of private_data and private_list so these are removed
> from struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes.  I

Yes! I love it.

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