Re: [PATCH] iget_locked [5/6]

[Alexander Viro]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Jan Harkes wrote:

> 
> This patch starts taking i_ino dependencies out of the VFS. The FS
> provided test and set callbacks become responsible for testing and
> setting inode->i_ino.
> 
> Because most filesystems are based on 32-bit unique inode numbers
> several functions are duplicated to keep iget_locked a fast path. We
> can avoid unnecessary pointer dereferences and function calls for this
> specific case.

I'd suggest putting the comment above + who's which counterpart
into inode.c.  Otherwise - fine with me.