On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Agreed. However, is there any reason to have this as a separate
> function? bforget() should _always_ remove the buffer from any inode
> queue. You can make that operation conditional on (bh->b_inode !=
> NULL) if you want to avoid taking the lru lock unnecessarily.
I doubt it. bforget() is called, for example, when we deal with the
changed branch in ext2_get_block() (the thing had been partially read,
but then we've noticed that it had been changed under us). And I don't
think that brelse() would be a good thing there...
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