Re: [PATCH 9/9] Clean up open coded inode dirty checks

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Nov 23 2007 - 14:47:58 EST


On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 19:16 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> static inline bool xfs_inode_clean(const struct xfs_inode *ip)
> {
> if (ip->i_itemp == NULL)
> return true;
> if (!(ip->i_itemp->ili_format.ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL) &&
> ip->i_update_core == NULL)
> return true;
> return false;
> }

Your code changed the test.
xfs_inode.i_update_core is an unsigned char.

I believe reordering the tests to avoid a possibly
unnecessary dereference is better.

if (ip->i_update_core)
return false;
if (!ip->i_itemp)
return true;
return ip->i_itemp->ili_format.ilf_fields & XFS_ILOG_ALL;


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