Re: buffer cache patches - anybody willing to summarize?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 4 Aug 1997 09:37:25 +0100 (BST)


> Please do not forget any SMP related patches, for example Leonards:
> http://www.linuxhq.com/patch/20-p0568.html
>
> Looking forward to being able to use the 2nd CPU on my DualPPro setup.

Leonard's SMP deadlock patch can cause disk corruption. Otherwise I'd have
tried to get it into .30 let alone .31