Re: [patch] some buffer.c glitches

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 15:06:59 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:

>i'm thinking that would be hard to implement efficiently. set_blocksize()

set_blocksize don't need performances at all, but the race I seen is
really bad and needs fixage (I am not too much worried about it thought
because I don't use removable media frequently).

>same as touch_buffer() comment above -- agreed. naked find_buffer() is
>used in lots of places from ext2 and the raid code, isn't it?

Yes.

Andrea Arcangeli

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