From patchwork Wed Jan 2 17:45:44 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [5/5] ext4: Remove unnecessary wait for extent conversion in ext4_fallocate() Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:45:44 -0000 From: Jan Kara X-Patchwork-Id: 209118 Message-Id: <1357148744-4895-6-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> To: Ted Tso Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore, ext4_fallocate() is free to operate on the inode while there are still some extent conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index f1ce33a..5c7a46a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -4406,8 +4406,6 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) if (len <= EXT_UNINIT_MAX_LEN << blkbits) flags |= EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_NORMALIZE; - /* Prevent race condition between unwritten */ - ext4_flush_unwritten_io(inode); retry: while (ret >= 0 && ret < max_blocks) { map.m_lblk = map.m_lblk + ret;