Re: [PATCH 20/41] fs: Ignore inode metadata buffers in inode_lru_isolate()

Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-24T05:42:27Z

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 02:41:15PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> There are only a few filesystems that use generic tracking of inode
> metadata buffer heads. As such it is mostly pointless to verify such
> attached buffer heads during inode reclaim. Drop the handling from
> inode_lru_isolate().

But the code isn't just verifying (which to me implies debug code),
but doing actual work to remove the buffers. This does look like a
behavior change to me, buf it is not due to previous patches or
because it was dead code, it would help greatly to explain that here.