On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:24:40PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > In case the metadata was not already cached before ->cluster() (in this
> > case there is no disk IO at all), ->cluster() will cache it avoiding
> > further disk accesses by writepage (or writepages()).
>
> True. But you have to go through ext2_get_branch (under the big kernel
> lock) - if we can do only one logical->physical block translations,
> why doing it multiple times?
You dont. If the metadata is cached and uptodate there is no need to call
get_block().
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