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Btrfs: add a comment for fs_info->max_inline
authorMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:05:05 +0000 (10:05 +0000)
committerJosef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:59:01 +0000 (12:59 -0500)
Though ->max_inline is a 64bit variant, and may be accessed by
multi-task, but it is just suggestive number, so we needn't add
anything to protect fs_info->max_inline, just add a comment to
explain wny we don't use a lock to protect it.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
fs/btrfs/ctree.h

index 69321013683cd2d1202ca7ae95755383f683209f..169baa817d9653c4bcccdfa56eb0f1fa3b815248 100644 (file)
@@ -1297,6 +1297,12 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
        u64 last_trans_log_full_commit;
        unsigned long mount_opt;
        unsigned long compress_type:4;
+       /*
+        * It is a suggestive number, the read side is safe even it gets a
+        * wrong number because we will write out the data into a regular
+        * extent. The write side(mount/remount) is under ->s_umount lock,
+        * so it is also safe.
+        */
        u64 max_inline;
        u64 alloc_start;
        struct btrfs_transaction *running_transaction;