[GFS2] Remove useless i_cache from inodes

The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks
used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked
up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places
where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been
the cause of many bugs.

In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the
disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes
it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which
would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c
index 7df702473252..70b404d2774b 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/log.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c
@@ -68,14 +68,12 @@ unsigned int gfs2_struct2blk(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, unsigned int nstruct,
  *
  */
 
-void gfs2_remove_from_ail(struct address_space *mapping, struct gfs2_bufdata *bd)
+void gfs2_remove_from_ail(struct gfs2_bufdata *bd)
 {
 	bd->bd_ail = NULL;
 	list_del_init(&bd->bd_ail_st_list);
 	list_del_init(&bd->bd_ail_gl_list);
 	atomic_dec(&bd->bd_gl->gl_ail_count);
-	if (mapping)
-		gfs2_meta_cache_flush(GFS2_I(mapping->host));
 	brelse(bd->bd_bh);
 }
 
@@ -248,7 +246,7 @@ static void gfs2_ail2_empty_one(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, struct gfs2_ail *ai)
 		bd = list_entry(head->prev, struct gfs2_bufdata,
 				bd_ail_st_list);
 		gfs2_assert(sdp, bd->bd_ail == ai);
-		gfs2_remove_from_ail(bd->bd_bh->b_page->mapping, bd);
+		gfs2_remove_from_ail(bd);
 	}
 }