Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 "nobh" support for ext3 writeback mode

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>  	iblock = index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - inode->i_sb->s_blocksize_bits);

It would still be nice to add a comment in here...

> +	if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, NOBH) && !page_has_buffers(page)) {
> +		if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
> +			struct buffer_head map_bh;
> +			bh = &map_bh;
> +			bh->b_state = 0;
> +			clear_buffer_mapped(bh);
> +			ext3_get_block(inode, iblock, bh, 0);
> +			if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) 
> +				goto unlock;
> +			err = -EIO;
> +			set_bh_page(bh, page, 0);
> +			bh->b_this_page = 0;
> +			bh->b_size = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
> +			ll_rw_block(READ, 1, &bh);
> +			wait_on_buffer(bh);
> +			if (!buffer_uptodate(bh))
> +				goto unlock;
> +			SetPageMappedToDisk(page);
> +		}
> +		kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
> +		memset(kaddr + offset, 0, length);
> +		flush_dcache_page(page);
> +		kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
> +		set_page_dirty(page);
> +		err = 0;
> +		goto unlock;
> +	}
> +	
>  	if (!page_has_buffers(page))
>  		create_empty_buffers(page, blocksize, 0);

Given that we're about to go add buffers to the page, why not do that
first, and use the page's own buffer_head rather than cooking up a local
one?  Then we can simply use sb_bread().