Re: [PATCH 20/41] fs: Ignore inode metadata buffers in inode_lru_isolate()
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:42:18 -0700
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > There are only a few filesystems that use generic tracking of inode > metadata buffer heads. As such it is mostly pointless to verify such > attached buffer heads during inode reclaim. Drop the handling from > inode_lru_isolate(). But the code isn't just verifying (which to me implies debug code), but doing actual work to remove the buffers. This does look like a behavior change to me, buf it is not due to previous patches or because it was dead code, it would help greatly to explain that here.