Re: [PATCH] exclusive wakeup for lock_buffer

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 17:33:15 EST


> > > extern void __wait_on_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> > > +extern void __lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *);
> >
> > So are we starting 2.5 now ?
>
> Alan,
>
> This patch only avoids unecessary wakeups. It doesn't add any new
> functionality.

I think making potentially very hard to debug changes to core code for
minor performance reasons alone isnt 2.4.x work. At least not yet

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