Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 12:02:06 EST


On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> BUG -> mark_buffer_clean is never been supposed to be blocking! Remove
> the conditional_schedule from there.

i do not like the conceptual difference between mark_buffer_dirty() and
mark_buffer_clean(). While it's true currently that _dirty() might
reschedule, while _clean() might not, this should be fixed either one way
or another.

-- mingo

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